WorksheetsCOLD WAR - Vocab Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Soviet Union was under...
Communism
Dictatorship
Capitalism
Democratic system
_________________________– agreements among competing groups of nations to help each other if war broke out
Armistice
Mobilization
Alliances
Reparations
_____________________________– an alliance during WWI consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
Allied Powers
League of Nations
Triple Entente
Central Powers
____________________________– an alliance during WWI consisting of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States.
Allied Powers
Triple Entente
League of Nations
Central Powers
The Cold War was a rivalry that sparked between the United States and what other country?
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Bolsheviks
Russian political group that advocated communism; seized control of Russia in October 1917; grew into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Definition of COMMUNISM
A political and economic system in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions.
Definition of EMERGED
To come into view or become visible. To become known.
Definition of COLLECTIVIZATION
A shift of control from an individual or company to a group called a collective.
A term used for the economic policies of Western countries.
A strategy to increase individual land ownership during the Cold War.
The privatization of farms in the Soviet Union.
Definition of GULAGS
GULAGS were prison labor camps in the Soviet Union.
Definition of ECONOMIC OLIGARCHY
A democratic government system
A small group of people who control a country's economy and influence the government.
Definition of CONDEMNED
To express public disapproval
Definition of SANCTIONS
Action that attempts to force a country to follow international law.
Definition of GLASNOST
A secretive policy of the Soviet Union to suppress disagreement.
Cease-Fire
to stop fighting a war with another country
fear that when one nation falls to communism then another one will, and so on, and so on
the stockpiling (amassing) of nuclear weapons as a deterrent (to prevent) a war
the U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
arms race
to cut off or block a city or country from supplies
neither side wins a clear or complete victory (no winner, no loser)
the stockpiling (amassing) of nuclear weapons as a deterrent (to prevent) a war
the U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
cold war
the fear that when one nation falls to communism then another one will, and so on, and so on
the state of tension without actual fighting between the united States and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991
to stop fighting a war with another country
neither side wins a clear or complete victory (no winner, no loser)
domino theory
to cut off or block a city or country from supplies
the U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
neither side wins a clear or complete victory (no winner, no loser)
the fear that when one nation falls to communism then another one will, and so on, and so on
blockade
neither side wins a clear or complete victory (no winner, no loser)
the stockpiling (amassing) of nuclear weapons as a deterrent (to prevent) a war
the fear that when one nation falls to communism then another one will, and so on, and so on
to cut off or block a city or country from supplies
containment
the U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
the state of tension without actual fighting between the united States and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991
to stop fighting a war with another country
to cut off or block a city or country from supplies
