Unit 7 and 8 Quiz

An economic system in which private individuals and corporations control the means of production and use them to earn profits.

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.

The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.

A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.

A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.

A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.

35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall.

Communist dictator of Cuba who came into power in 1959.

13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba.

A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.

Communist leader of China who comes into power in 1949.

Asian nation that turns to Communism in 1949 after the Mao Zedong comes into power and fights with the North in the Korean War.

Mao called for young people to rise up and rid China of the anti-Communist elements within the Party, schools, universities and society; became "Red Guards