cold war vocab

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

50-year, non-fighting was between countries with communist and mixed economies

Question 2

Communism(Command Economy)

Answer 2

Government completely controls the economy
No private ownership of anything Hot water
Ex.Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Cuba

Question 3

Capitalism (Market Economy)

Answer 3

Private ownership of everything, buyers and sellers decide what gets made and who gets what-laissez-faire
Cold water

Question 4

Mixed Market Economy

Answer 4

some private and some government ownership. A mix between command and market economies
Ex.USA, Great Britain, Canada

Question 5

Containment

Answer 5

stop the spread of communism

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

U.S. will help any country resisting communism

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII

Question 8

Berlin Blockade

Answer 8

Soviets cut off access to west Berlin

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

US and Great Britain dropped supplies in West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade

Question 10

Berlin Wall

Answer 10

Soviet-built wall dividing West and East Berlin

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

American military alliance against the soviet union and warsaw pact

Question 12

Warsaw pact

Answer 12

Soviet Military Alliance the USA and NATO

Question 13

Korean War

Answer 13

Containment operation in Korea 1950-1953

Question 14

DOMINO Theory

Answer 14

If one country falls to communism, others will too, they wil fall like dominos

Question 15

Arms Race

Answer 15

Competition for the most destructive weapons

Question 16

Brinkmanship

Answer 16

Living on the edge of all-out nuclear war

Question 17

M.A.D. (Mutually assured destruction)

Answer 17

Part of Brinksmart that prevented a nuclear war

Both sides knew that no one would win in a nuclear war- everyone would be killed

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 18

The Soviet Union to put nuclear missiles in Cuba to use against the USA
Almost resulted in nuclear war

Question 19

Space Race

Answer 19

Competition for the most advanced space technology

Question 20

Sputnik

Answer 20

World’s first satellite– launched by U.S.S.R.

Question 21

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 21

U.S. President—1953-1961

Question 22

Prosperity

Answer 22

Living well: A high standard of living

Question 23

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 23

Senator who accused many of being Communist in America

Question 24

McCarthyism

Answer 24

Publicity accusing people of disloyalty without evidence

Question 25

Blacklist

Answer 25

to ban someone (people accused of being communists were kept from jobs

Question 26

Covert

Answer 26

Done in secret

Question 27

Ethel and Julius Rosenburg

Answer 27

American couple executed for spying for Soviets