Focused Vocab 11

Match the following

• Containment

• A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

• Berlin Airlift

• A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Marshal Plan and Truman Doctrine

• US gives money to help rebuild the economies of other countries to stop the spread of communism

• NATO

• Joint effort by the US & Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the USSR blocked roads

• Iron Curtain

• Policy introduced by Harry S. Truman after WWII that said the duty of the U.S. was to stop the spread of Totalitarianism (implying Communism); Defined the foreign policy for the period after WWII until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Match the following

• Espionage

• A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

• Berlin Wall

• America's extremely secret testing of its atomic power in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• An international treaty, signed in 1968, that aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

• Trinity Test

• 1,000 times more powerful as an atomic bomb; First tested in 1952 by the U.S.

• Hydrogen Bomb

• Spying

Match the following

• Communism

• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Capitalism

• The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, PM of Great Britain and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.

• Cold War

• A war of words and threats between the United States and the Soviet Union that was marked primarily by a political and economic, rather than military, struggle between the two nations.

• Space Race

• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Potsdam Conference

• The Soviet Union launches Sputnik to beat the US for being the first country to send something into space.