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Cold War
Cold War Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | rivalry between the US and Soviet Union, completing for world leadership 1945-1991 |
| free enterprise or capitalism | economic system where individuals are free to own or work for a business of their choice, consumers and business owners control the economy |
| communism | government that has total control |
| dictator | a ruler with absolute power |
| Berlin Airlift | NATO flew supplies into Berlin to help those in need |
| Korean War | communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea, US backed South Korea |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created to stop the spread of communism |
| Warsaw Pact | 1955 agreement with NATO, Eastern BLOC countries agreed to be under Soviet control |
| House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | group formed in 1945 to investigate accused Communists hiding in the US |
| Joseph McCarthy | anti-communist US senator that scared Americans about communism |
| McCarthyism | anti-communist movement in the 1950s led by Senator McCarthy that used unfair investigative practices |
| Red Scare | federal action by the US against people suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers |
| Nikita Khrushchev | dictator of Soviet Union after Stalin, planned Cuban Missile Crisis, goal was to spread communism |
| Iron Curtain | said by Winston Churchill, symbolic boundary that divided Europe into two parts: communist Soviet Union on the East and democratic Europe on the West |
| Truman Doctrine | promise made by Harry Truman to help any country the the Soviet Union tried to turn Communist |
| domino theory | theory that if one nation becomes Communist then the surrounding nations become Communist |
| nuclear arms race | competition between the US and Soviet Union to create nuclear weapons |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviet Union supplies nuclear weapons to Cuba and aimed that at the US |
| Vietnam War | North Vietnam (communist) fought against South Vietnam (democratic), Soviet Union and the US were involved, communists won |
| Soviet Union | communist country during the Cold War, desired to spread communism around the world, US was the rival |
| Superpowers | US and Soviet Union during the Cold War, both sides had nuclear weapons |
| Berlin Wall | wall that divided East Berlin (communist) and West Berlin (democratic) |
| German Reunification | West Germany (democratic) and East Germany (communist) were finally reunited |
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