Cold War vocabulary

A U.S. security policy during the Cold War in which military action was used to stop the Soviet Union from spreading communism

• Consumerism

• Containment

• Iron Curtain

• Arms Race

• Baby Boom

 The military and political divide in Europe between Western capitalist and Eastern communist countries 

• Marshall Plan

• Subdivision

• Smog

• Iron Curtain

• Sunbelt

Congress granted the billions of dollars needed to fund the proposal

• Marshall Plan

• Libel

• Domino Theory

• Infrastructure

• Sunbelt

A political situation in which rival countries try to gather or produce the most military weapons 

• Suburban Sprawl

• Urban Renewal

• Demilitarized Zone

• Arms Race

An area in which military personel and weapons are not allowed 

• Demilitarized Zone

• Marshall Plan

• Infrastructure

• Brinkmanship

• Domino Theory

An idea during the Cold War that countries that neighbor communist countries are most likely to fall to communism

• Sunbelt

• Domino Theory

• McCarthyism

• Interstate Highway System

• Libel

Roads, buildings, and public utilities 

• Brinkmanship

• Libel

• Containment

• Infrastructure

• McCarthyism

The crime of making verbal or written negative claims about someone without evidence 

• Subdivision

• Libel

• Baby Boom

• McCarthyism

• Domesticity

The practice of accusing people of being traitors to their country without offering proof

• Poverty Rate

• Domesticity

• McCarthyism

• Libel

• Subdivision

A significant increase in the birthrate 

• Urban Renewal

• Smog

• Subdivision

• Baby Boom

• Poverty Rate