The most powerful nations in the world
Power Partners
superpowers
Allies
The Cold War was competition between which countries?
US and Soviet Union
Soviet Union and Germany
US and Germany
Organization headed by Eleanor Roosevelt, formed to stop the spread of communism
League of Nations
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact
government owns all businesses and land and the people have little choices
free enterprise
democracy
communism
What is a "Cold War"?
War fought between more than two countries
War fought without weapons on a battlefield.
war fought during the winter months
government of the people - citizens elect their representatives by voting
democracy
facism
communism
Alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist controlled nations of eastern Europe formed in response to NATO
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
Wall of steel constructed to separate Berlin
Border between the US and the Soviet Union
Imaginary line that divided East and Western Europe
Who first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe Europe during the Cold War?
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the Berlin Wall?
Imaginary border btw. east and west Berlin
Wall built to keep East Berliners from escaping to W.Berlin
Wall built to keep West Berliners from escaping to E.Berlin
The US aided West Berlin by flying in food and fuel when Soviet troops cut off the city’s supply
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
Flight for food
US policy promising to help countries that the Soviet Union tried to turn communist
McCarthyism
NATO
Truman Doctrine
The belief that if S.Vietnam fell to the communists, other parts of Asia would also become communists.
Communism control
Domino Theory
Red Scare
Senator that headed a movement to find any communists within American government and society
Lyndon Johnson
Joseph McCarty
Harry Truman
Nikita Khruschev
Period of panic and fear that communism was spreading in the United States
Truman Policy
Red Scare
Warsaw Pact
Race to build more and better weapons than the enemy
Battle of Arms
Space Arms Race
Nuclear Arms Race
