Cold War Vocabulary

An economic system in which land, factories and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government

• capitalism

• communism

• socialism

• fascism

a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Block and powers in the Eastern Bloc

• Cold War

• containment

• capitalism

• foreign policy

An economic system in which all of the economic decisions are made by the government

• capitalism

• communism

• command economy

• trickle down economics

A strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion

• derivative

• finance

• containment

• communist

The Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War

• Eastern Bloc

• Western Block

• Axis Power

• Allied Powers

a government's strategy for dealing with other nations

• diplomacy

• foreign policy

• containment

• propaganda

International military alliance between countries in North America and Europe created after World War II

• Eastern Block

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• Western Bloc

A set of rules of a plan that is used as a guide for action

• policy

• political

• promote

• pursue

The rules and process for making decisions in a government

• political system

• foreign policy

• ideology

• propaganda

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

• containment

• communism

• propaganda

• patriotic duty