APUSH Vocab quiz

Conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union for global influence and supremacy lasting from the end of WWII until 1991

• Cold war

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Satellite Nation

The political and military barrier that isolated soviet-controlled countries of eastern Europe after WWII

• Containment

• Cold War

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

The U.S foreign policy or of preventing the expansion of Communism during the Cold War

• Cold War

• Containment

• NATO

• Iron Curtain

Nations politically and economically dominated or controlled by another more powerful country

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

• Satellite Nation

• Containment

U.S program to provide monetary aid to Western Europe after the devastation of World War II

• Cold War

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Brinkmanship

Radioactive particles dispersed by nuclear explosion

• Fallout

• Arms Race

• Brinkmanship

• Space Race

The practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down.

• Arms Race

• Brinkmanship

• Space Race

• Military-industrial complex

An informal relationship that some people believe exists between the military and the defense industry to promote greater military spending and influence government policy

• NATO

• Arms Race

• Military-industrial complex

• Space Race

the Cold War competition over dominance of space exploration capability

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Arms Race

• Space Race

The Cold War competition over dominance of new high tech and powerful weaponry such as intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM's)

• Arms Race

• NATO

• Warsaw pact

• Deterrence