Cold War Vocab

Containment

• A foreign policy focused on spreading Democracy across the world

• A foreign policy focused on stopping Communism from spreading through the world

• A foreign policy to stop people from having kids

• A foreign policy to limit the amount of nuclear weapons a country has

Iron Curtain

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

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Marshall Plan

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

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

• The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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

• airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

Democracy

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

Communism

• A political and economic system where all property and business is publicly owned by the collective government

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Warsaw Pact

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

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

Cold War

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

• A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.

an alliance of nations that attempts to end disputes between countries peacefully

• United Nations
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• Yalta Conference
• Nuremburg Trials

a law that offered veterans money for school, houses, farms, and businesses

• Marshall Plan
• Brinkmanship
• GI Bill of Rights
• Fair Deal