Topic 20 Cold War in Europe Academic Language (WS 2026))

Match the following

• Ronald Reagan

• President 1981 - 1989 noted for changing strategy from containment to defeating soviet union through economic and diplomatic pressure. Negotiated with Gorbachev and signed the INF Treaty, helping reduce nuclear arms

• John F. Kennedy

• President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Harry Truman

• 33rd President of the United States. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the WWII

nations with economic resources and military might to dominate the globe​ (a)  

• Superpower
• Marshall Plan
• Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Ideology
• Cold War
• Command Economy

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

• United Nations
• KGB

• League of Nations

• CIA

a political, military and ideological "curtain" split between the democratic nations and communist nations in Europe​ (a)  

• Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Berlin Blockade
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment
• Solidarity
• Command Economy
• Ideology

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world​ (a)  

• Truman Doctrine
• Containment
• Berlin Airlift
• Ideology
• Iron Curtain
• Capitalism

Match the following

• Berlin Blockade

• President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

• Truman Doctrine

• Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy.

• Marshall Plan

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

• Berlin Airlift

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

Match the following

• Ideology

• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Command Economy

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

• Democracy

• a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political policy

• Communism

• an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.

• Capitalism

• 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.

the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.​ (a)  

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Detente
• Solidarity
• Glasnost
• Perestroika

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)  

• Cold War
• M.A.D.
• Six Strategies of the Cold War
• Brinkmanship
• Warsaw Pact
• Glasnost
• Perestroika

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries​ (a)  

• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Detente
• CIA