The most powerful nations in the world
superpowers
Power Partners
Allies
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
communism
free enterprise
democracy
What is a "Cold War"?
War fought between more than two countries
war fought during the winter months
War fought without weapons on a battlefield.
government of the people - citizens elect their representatives by voting
communism
facism
democracy
Alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist controlled nations of eastern Europe formed in response to NATO
Allied Powers
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
Axis Powers
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
Imaginary line that divided East and Western Europe
Border between the US and the Soviet Union
Wall of steel constructed to separate Berlin
Who first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe Europe during the Cold War?
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
What was the Berlin Wall?
Wall built to keep West Berliners from escaping to E.Berlin
Wall built to keep East Berliners from escaping to W.Berlin
Imaginary border btw. east and west 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
Truman Doctrine
NATO
McCarthyism
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
Nikita Khruschev
Joseph McCarty
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
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
Space Arms Race
Battle of Arms
Nuclear Arms Race
