The Cold War vocabulary

1. an extremely powerful nation

• communism
• iron curtain
• superpower

2. a natural or human-made item that orbits a planet

• blockade
• satellite
• intervention

3. a projectile, often used to launch a weapon

• missile
• arms race
• blockade

4. the act of interfering with the outcome of a situation, typically taken to improve a situation

• intervention
• communism
• superpower

5. system where the government owns the factories and natural resources and controls the production of goods

• iron curtain
• superpower
• communism

6. competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military weapons and technology

• space race
• arms race
• nuclear

7. surrounding an enemy's territory in wartime to keep people and supplies from passing

• blockade
• intervention
• iron curtain

8. destroyed or ruined

• nuclear
• devastated
• missile

9. term used to describe the border between Western Europe and the communist countries of Eastern Europe

• blockade
• intervention
• iron curtain

10. related to the division and joining of atoms as a method to release energy

• nuclear
• devastated
• missile