The most powerful nations in the world
superpowers
Allies
Power Partners
The Cold War was competition between which countries?
US and Soviet Union
US and Germany
Soviet Union 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
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
democracy
facism
communism
Alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist controlled nations of eastern Europe formed in response to NATO
League of Nations
Axis Powers
Warsaw Pact
Allied Powers
What was the "Iron Curtain"?
Imaginary line that divided East and Western Europe
Wall of steel constructed to separate Berlin
Border between the US and the Soviet Union
Who first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe Europe during the Cold War?
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
John F. Kennedy
What was the Berlin Wall?
Wall built to keep West Berliners from escaping to E.Berlin
Imaginary border btw. east and west 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 Wall
Berlin Airlift
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
Nikita Khruschev
Harry Truman
Joseph McCarty
Period of panic and fear that communism was spreading in the United States
Warsaw Pact
Red Scare
Truman Policy
Race to build more and better weapons than the enemy
Space Arms Race
Nuclear Arms Race
Battle of Arms
