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Cold War
Vocabulary Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and conventional weapons. | Arms Race |
| The massive relief effort of food and fuel to democratic West Berlin following the cut off by the Soviets. | Berlin Airlift |
| A massive concrete barrier, dividing democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin. Acted as a symbol of the Cold War and Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) restrictions. | Berlin Wall |
| Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out. | Blockade |
| The Soviet leader who arrested and imprisoned dissidents and claimed the right to interfere with the Warsaw Pact. | Leonid Brezhnev |
| The Leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950’s, who became an anti-American dictator. | Fidel Castro |
| The state of tension and hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after 1945 without armed conflict between the major powers. | Cold War |
| The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism. | Containment |
| An attempt by the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed toward the United States. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall, like a row of falling dominoes. | Domino Theory |
| The imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from the communist countries of the East. | Iron Curtain |
| The food and economic aid package launched by the United States to help European countries rebuild after World War II. | Marshall Plan |
| The leader of the Soviet Union following Stalin ruling from 1953-1964. He created the Cuban Missile Crisis, and favored a peaceful co-existence with the west. | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Vietnamese nationalist who brought communism to North Vietnam during the latter part of the 20th century. | Ho Chi Minh |
| The military alliance for a mutual defense between the U.S., Canada, and western nations. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.) |
| Dependent state/country. | Satellite |
| A nation strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations. | Superpower |
| The policy made by US President Truman in 1947 that made clear that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere in the world. | Truman Doctrine |
| The military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites. | Warsaw Pact |
| Policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s. | Glasnost |
| Restructuring of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980s. | Perestroika |
| The last Communist leader of the Soviet Union. He is known for his work to end Cold War tensions, and changing the Soviet government and economy. | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s. | Detente |
| An independent trade union that worked for political change in Poland. | Solidarity |
| Leader of Solidarity that helped Poland gain independence from the Soviet Union, later became president of Poland in 1990. | Lech Walesa |
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