Cold War Vocab

A competition between nations for power through the creation and buildup of weapons, especially nuclear weapons, between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

• Arms Race

• Space Race

• Triathlon

What is the definition of "Berlin Wall"?

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization; A defensive military alliance with the West European nations and the US.

• An imaginary barrier separating the Soviet Union and its communist satellite states from Western Europe during the Cold War.

• A guarded concrete wall, 28 miles long, erected across the city of Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and torn down in 1989.

• The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.

An attitude that favors one way of feeling or acting over any other.

• Tolerance

• Bias

• Compassion

• Opinion

A system in which a country's economy is controlled by private ownership of trade and production for profit, in a free market, rather than by the government.  

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Totalitarianism

What is the definition of "ceasefire"?

• A policy involved taking measures to prevent the extension of communism.

• situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

• An agreement to end fighting

A political system in which all property is owned by the state and each citizen works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Command Economy

• Market Economy

True or False: This is the CORRECT definition of "containment"...

A policy involved taking measures to encourage the extension of communism.

• True!

• False

The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.

• Communism

• Economy

• Capitalism

What is the definition of "Embargo"?

• The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.

• An agreement to end fighting

• An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information

• Espionage

• Innovation

• Embargo