1. Mr. Condry’s Social Studies Class
Cold War Vocabulary
Mr. Condry’s Social Studies Class

2. Cold War
the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

3. Korean Conflict
fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

4. Vietnam Conflict
conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954.

5. USSR
established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991.

6. Yalta Conference
a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.

7. Berlin Wall
A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. The eastern, or Russian, sector became the capital of communist East Germany.

8. Iron Curtain
the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

9. Communist
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

10. Democracy
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

11. 38th Parallel
formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.

12. United Nations
is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries

13. Guerilla Warfare
is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.