WorksheetsCold War Vocabulary
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
The Cold War was a state of tension between
the U.S. and the Soviet Union
the U.S. and Germany
the U.S. and Spain
the U.S. and Italy
A system where the government owns all property and people are not free is called
capitalism
communism
free enterprise
socialism
An imaginary line dividing eastern (communist) and western (free) Europe was called the
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
Iron Curtain
NATO
An alliance between the U.S., Canada, and several European nations formed to fight any attack from communist Eastern Europe.
The United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The Allied Powers
The League of Nations
The delivery of supplies to West Berlin by the U.S. and its Allies was called the
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Iron Curtain
The dividing line between North Korea (communist) and South Korea (free)
The Berlin Wall
The Iron Curtain
The 38th Parallel
The 58th Parallel
A senator from Wisconsin who started the "Red Scare" by accusing government officials of being communists was
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis was
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph McCarthy
Vladimir Lenin
A tense time in 1962 when the Soviet Union set up nuclear missile sites in Cuba was called the
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Berlin Airlift
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
