Cold War Vocabulary

"Rule by the people" system of government. Citizens have the right to vote.

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Socialism

28 miles long; built in Germany in 1961, torn down in 1989.

• Cold War

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Arms Race

Political system where all property is owned by the state.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Socialism

• Capitalism

Competition between the US and Soviet Union building nuclear weapons during the Cold War

• Containment

• Arms Race

• Iron Curtain

• Democracy

Soviet zone of Germany created after it was divided after World War II.

• West Germany

• East Germany

• North Germany

• South Germany

Began after WWII, lasted from 1945-1991. Military tension between the US and Soviet Union.

• Cold War

• World War 3

• Containment

• Appeasement

Policy of preventing a hostile country from spreading its influence

• Cold War

• Containment

• Infiltration

• Communism

System in which a country's economy is controlled by private ownership, instead of the government.

• Communism

• Socialism

• Democracy

• Capitalism

Imaginary barrier separating the Soviet Union from Western Europe during the Cold War

• Berlin Wall

• Great Wall of China

• Copper Fence

• Iron Curtain

A system to organize society by spreading wealth more evenly, government owns and regulates production.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Socialism