Unit 7: Vocabulary

Struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union from the late 1940’s to the early 1990’s that was fought with ideas, words, and money, with no direct conflict between the 2 countries.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• WWI

• The Cold War

• WWII

An economic system based on private ownership of business

• Capitalism 

• Feudalism

• Dictatorship

• Command Economy

Political and economic system in which the government owns all business and land

• Democracy

• Communism

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Oligarchy

A political system run by the people in which citizens vote for their representatives and their wishes

• Oligarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Communism

• Democracy

A statement from President Truman promising aid to Greece and Turkey in order to prevent communist takeover in these nations.

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

Program under which the United States provided funds to help European countries rebuild after WWII.

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Law

International organization formed in 1945 to promote peace and end conflicts between countries

• United Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Treaty of Versailles

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance among the nations of Western Europe, United States, and Canada in which they agreed to help each other if attacked by the Soviet Union.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• United Nations

A military alliance of communist nations that agree to work together in case of an attack from an outside source

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• McCarthyism

• Sputnik

The first artificial satellite put into Earth’s orbit launched by the Soviet Union.

• Warsaw Pact

• HUAC

• Berlin Airlift

• Sputnik