Cold War Vocabulary Flashcards
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laissez faire
a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
communist
a person who supports or believes in the principles of communism.
democracy
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
truman doctrine
the truman doctrine was an american foreign policy with the primary goal of containing soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war.
reparations
stalin wanted huge reparations from Germany, and a‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again.
marshall plan
the united states also adopted the marshall plan in 1947. this plan gave food and other aid to european countries to help them recover from the war.
berlin wall
the berlin wall was built by the communist government of east berlin in 1961. the wall separated east berlin and west berlin. when it was knocked down this symbolized the end of the cold war.
containment
truman began a policy of containment blocking the Soviets from spreading communism.
warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
Brinkmanship
the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Sovie tUnion launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
Arms Race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War
Domino Theory’
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
Iron Curtain
a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
Totalitarianism
a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Space Race
the Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
In 1949 the United States and European countries worked together to form an alliance for protection against Communist aggression called N.A.T.O. What does N.A.T.O stand for?
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?- Joseph Stalin
stalin ruled as absolute dictator of the Soviet Union throughout World War II and until his death in March 1953.
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?
during 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe
A system where the government owns the factories and other natural resources AND controls the production of goods is known as
communism is a political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
Type of government where the government owns everything and makes all the decisions
communism, also known as a command system, is an economic system where the government owns most of the factors of production and decides the allocation of resources and what products and services will be provided.
