Cold War Review

Competition between the US and the Soviet Union.  Democracy vs. Communism. All about one side being better than the other.

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

School drills to prepare and protect from an atomic bomb

• Fall out shelter

• Duck and Cover Drills

• Iron Curtain

• HUAC

Economic/political system in which the government has control over business, people’s lives, etc…Government ownership.  Soviet Union and China, North Korea, and North Vietnam, Cuba

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Cold War

Economic system in which the people have control…Private ownership of business.  United States, Great Britain, France

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• laissez-faire

After WWII, the winners (US, USSR, Britain, France) met to decide what Europe would look like after the war. The Soviet Union agrees to allow free elections in Europe but breaks their promise.

• HUAC

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Yalta Conference

Government Agency set up to look out for and investigate suspected communists in the US

• Marshall Plan

• OPA-Office of Price Administration

• HUAC-House of Un-American Activities Committee

• McCarthyism

Winston Churchill made this phrase to describe the division between Western Europe (democracy) and Eastern Europe (communism).

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• huac

Fear of Communism during the Cold War 

Government Agency set up to look out for and investigate suspected communists in the US

• OPA- Office of Price Administration

• HUAC- House of Un-American Activiities Committee

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

US policy during the Cold War to keep communism from spreading.

• Containment

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Warsaw Pact

The USSR built a wall to separate Western Berlin (Democracy) from Eastern Berlin (communism) to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin.

• Berlin Blockade

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Curtain

• Berlin Wall