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Question 1

An economic and political system in which a country’s trade, businesses and industry are controlled by private owners who compete for a profit, rather than by the government.

Answer 1

CAPITALISM

Question 2

An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx which states that all means of production are owned equally by all and controlled by the government, usually by a single authoritarian party. This system also includes the belief in a society without different social classes.

Answer 2

COMMUNISM

Question 3

An armed conflict between two states which act on the urging or on behalf of other countries that are not directly involved in the hostilities.

Answer 3

PROXY WAR

Question 4

When one person or one group has TOTAL control over all aspects of a country and its government. Government regulates nearly every aspect of public and personal life and the personal rights of its citizens are not a concern.

Answer 4

TOTALITARIANISM

Question 5

A military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between democratic countries, especially the United States and Europe, against the threat of the Soviet Union and the spread of communism.

Answer 5

NATO

Question 6

A military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 this was a response to the formation of NATO (Included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union)

Answer 6

WARSAW PACT

Question 7

• In Russian this means, “openness” and “reconstruction.” The policy of Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s that attempted to loosen control over the Soviet people and to allow for more freedom. This policy eventually led to the end of communism in that country.

Answer 7

GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA

Question 8

A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism around the world.

Answer 8

CONTAINMENT

Question 9

The practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of different countries to prevent or resolve difficulties that may arise.

Answer 9

DIPLOMACY

Question 10

The name for the boundary dividing Communist Eastern Europe from a Democratic Western Europe from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. The term refers to the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and the countries it controlled from open contact with the West and its allied states.

Answer 10

IRON CURTAIN

Question 11

the widespread fear in the United States that communism was overtaking the country.

Answer 11

THE RED SCARE”

Question 12

a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.

Answer 12

COUP

Question 13

the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of nonprofessional military forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, professional military force.

Answer 13

GUERILLA WARFARE