Cold War Vocabulary Test

An economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits.

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Warsaw Pact

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.

• Democracy

• Republic

• Communism

imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.

• Iron Curtain

• Communism

• Mexican Assembly

The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.

• Mexican Secession

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

• Soviet Pact

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Airlift

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Justice League

A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.

• League of Nations

• Avengers

• Warsaw Pact

35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall.

• Barack Obama

• Josef Stalin

• John F. Kennedy

13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba.

• Warsaw Pact

• Mexican American War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Berlin Wall

• Domino Theory