1950s Vocabulary Quiz

This alliance, formed in 1949, united 12 Western nations to prevent the spread of communism.

• Warsaw Pact

• Club Europa

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• European Union

 Worldwide U.S. military support for people who were resisting the spread of communism. 

• Roosevelt Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Big Stick Policy

• Truman Doctrine

Massive amounts of U.S. economic aid provided to western European countries after WWII to try and ‘jumpstart’ their economies.

• Marshall Plan

• Nato

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

Soviet leader during the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

• Joseph Stalin

•  Nikita Khrushchev

• Vladimir Lenin

• Vladimir Putin

Term originated by Winston Churchill to describe the ‘barrier’ that the Soviets had established between communist nations and the West.

• Trump Wall

• British Blockade

• Iron Curtain

• USSR Fence

A local military activity without a declaration of war.

• Police Action

• Nuclear intervention.

• Unarmed intervention.

• Peaceful Protest

A philosophy that kept the Superpowers from attacking one another directly because each had the nuclear capability to completely destroy the other. 

• Mutual Combat

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Armageddon

• The Apocalypse

President Eisenhower’s thesis that if one country in a region fell to communism others would follow.

• Snowballing Effect

• Das Kapitalism

• Communist Manifesto

• Domino Theory

U.S. program aimed at stopping the spread of communism (the Domino Theory).

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment Policy

• Berlin Airlift

In 1949 the Soviets stopped supplies from flowing into free West Berlin in an attempt to get the West to abandon the German city.

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Black Market

• Soviet Stop the Prop