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
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
government owns all businesses and land and the people have little choices
communism
democracy
free enterprise
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
facism
communism
democracy
Alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist controlled nations of eastern Europe formed in response to NATO
Allied Powers
Warsaw Pact
Axis Powers
League of Nations
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?
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
What was the Berlin Wall?
Imaginary border btw. east and west Berlin
Wall built to keep West Berliners from escaping to E.Berlin
Wall built to keep East Berliners from escaping to W.Berlin
The US aided West Berlin by flying in food and fuel when Soviet troops cut off the city’s supply
Flight for food
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
US policy promising to help countries that the Soviet Union tried to turn communist
McCarthyism
Truman Doctrine
NATO
The belief that if S.Vietnam fell to the communists, other parts of Asia would also become communists.
Communism control
Red Scare
Domino Theory
Senator that headed a movement to find any communists within American government and society
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
Nikita Khruschev
Joseph McCarty
Period of panic and fear that communism was spreading in the United States
Truman Policy
Warsaw Pact
Red Scare
Race to build more and better weapons than the enemy
Nuclear Arms Race
Space Arms Race
Battle of Arms
