F&C: The Cold War Vocabulary

During the Cold War, what policy did the U.S. follow to stop the spread of communism?

• Open Door Policy

• Big Stick Policy

• Containment Policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

Policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism, mainly to help Greece and Turkey.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshal Plan

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Domino Theory

A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union on who can supply their arsenal with more weapons?

• Arms Race

• Domino Theory

• Massive Retaliation

• Cold War

A military and defense alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America designed to promote global justice and cooperation with member democratic nations.

• NATO

• WARSAW

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

What is Capitalism?

• A system where the government controls business

• An economic system where the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit! 

• A economic system in which the people have limited rights

• An economic system in which most property and resources, such as factories or farms, are publicly owned or controlled.

a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Capitalism

• Imperialism 

• Socialism

• Communism 

A political system where the government is run by a dictator who controls the nation with absolute power

• democracy

• totalitarian

• command economy

• oligarchy

America provided economic assistance to bankrupt Western Europe and vowed to halt the spread communism

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• containment

• exacerbate

communist state agreement meant to counteract NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Berlin Blockade and Airlift

• Marshall Plan

the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit of safety before stopping

• brinkmanship

• massive retaliation

• New Look Policy

• domino theory