WWII and Cold War Test

period of time after WWII where nuclear threats and confrontation were high between the USA and USSR, rather than actual warfare

• Democratic Capitalism

• NATO & Warsaw Pact

• Cold War (1945-1991)

• Iron Curtain

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Space Race

• Containment

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Democratic Capitalism

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

• Communism

• NATO & Warsaw Pact

• Domino Theory

• Iron Curtain

the freest of political economies. The citizens have wide civil liberties, are sovereign, and elect a republican government; property is privately owned and production and prices are determined by supply and demand

• Communism

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Democratic Capitalism

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Berlin Wall

• Truman Doctrine

• Communism

• Democratic Capitalism

Alliance formed by democratic Western nations as an attempt to contain communism. As a result, Soviets feel threatened and form a communist alliance

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Marshall Plan

• NATO & Warsaw Pact

• Space Race

A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.

• Communism

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Berlin Wall

• Cuban Missile Crisis

the Cold War competition between superpowers to develop more powerful and greater numbers of nuclear weapons

• Space Race

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Democratic Capitalism

• Cuban Missile Crisis

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• Communism

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Communism