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