Social Studies Vocabulary- Impact of WW2

the mainly non-military struggle for influence and control between the Soviet Union and the United States, which took place between the 1940s and 1990s

• Cold War

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Berlin Wall

an economic and political system developed on a national level in the Soviet Union and in Chind. Under communism, the government owns all the land and most industries in the name of the people

• Cold war

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Arms Race

an economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

a plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after World War II. One of the main reasons this was done was to stop communism.

• Displaced Persons Act

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

authorized for a limited period of time the admission into the United States of 200,000 certain European displaced persons following World War 2

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

• Communism

• Displaced Persons Act

an organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. The states were all allies and would fight together if one of them was attacked

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

an imaginary line in Europe separating nations of the West, such as the United States and European countries, and the Soviet Union and its allies

• Berlin Wall

• United Nations

• Iron Curtain

• Warsaw Pact

a contest to build more and better weapons than those of enemy

• United Nations

• Berlin Wall

• Arms Race

• Marshall Plan

an organization between countries established to promote international cooperation

• Marshall Plan

• Communism

• Capitalism

• United Nations

wall in Berlin separating East and West Berlin built by Eastern Germany (Soviet Union)

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact