Cold War Vocab Review

military operation that is carried out secretly

• nonaligned

• covert

• ideology

• blitzkrieg

not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; more broadly, the developing nations of the world

• Developing countries

• Developed countries

• Third World

wealthy nations with substantial industrialization

• developing countries

• third world countries

• developed countries

the ideological barrier that divided Eastern and Western Europe

• Iron Curtain

• Steel Curtain

• Eurasia

• Iron Churchill

a conference of the main Allied leaders—U.S. president Harry S. Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill and later his successor Clement Attlee, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin—to finalize post-World War II plans for Europe

• Yalta

• Potsdam

a conference of the main Allied leaders—U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin—to plan the future of post–World War II Europe

• Yalta

• Potsdam

Which city was divided in two by a wall during the Cold War?

• Moscow

• Hamburg

• Warsaw

• Berlin

Which of these terms best describes the United States’s policy when it came to communism?

• Accommodation

• Coexistence

• Codependence

• Containment

Following World War II, the US envisioned a ________ Western Europe.

• communist

• socialist

• capitalist

• feudalist

The Cold War was a competition for influence between which two countries?

• The United States and Soviet Union

• China and the United Kingdom

• The Soviet Union and Germany

• China and the United States