
Cold War Vocabulary
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- Q11950-1991 A period of threats or tensions but never an actual war over differences between Russia and the United States.World War 2Hot WarCold WarWorld War 330s
- Q2Country involved in the Cold war who wanted democracy and capitalism.United StatesSoviet Union30s
- Q3Country involved in the Cold War who wanted autocracies and communism.United StatesSoviet Union30s
- Q41950-1953 A UN force led by the United States fought for a democracy in the South, and China and the Soviet Union fought for communism in the North. In the end, the boundary between the 2 remained at the 38th parallel (DMZ).Korean WarWorld War 2World War 1Vietnam War30s
- Q51955-1975 A twenty year conflict between communist North against South and its ally, the United States. Ended with an unified communist country.World War 2Vietnam WarKorean WarWorld War 130s
- Q6A competition between, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The Soviet Union won by launching 1st artificial satellite called Sputnik in 1957 and the first man in space, Turi Gagarin in April 1961.Space RaceStar WarsSpace War30s
- Q7Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shoresBerlin Missile CrisisLatin American Missile CrisisCuban Missile Crisis30s
- Q8Symbol of the Cold War, built in Germany to separate Communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin.German WallIron CurtainBerlin Wall30s
- Q9A system of beliefs or ideas.GeologySociologyIdeologyPsychology30s
- Q10Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nationsBerlin WallIron CurtainGerman Wall30s
- Q11A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.Checker TheoryDomino TheoryChess Theory30s
- Q12The United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advancesContainmentAlliance SystemConfinement30s
- Q13A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII. Offered money to countries who supported democracy and resisted communism.Domino PlanMcArthur PlanMarshall Plan30s
- Q14An alliance of democratic countries in western Europe made to defend one another if they were attacked.NEMONATONAMANAMO30s
- Q15An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist nations.Stalingrad PactPoland PactBerlin PactWarsaw Pact30s