1. Cold War Vocabulary Review

2. What is the economic system where property and
What is the economic system where property and resources are owned and distributed by the government?
Communism

3. What is called when countries tried to keep communism in the nations where it already existed and not let it spread?
Containment

4. What was the concrete divider between East and West Berlin called?
Berlin Wall

5. In the Vietnam, there were Communist rebels in South Vietnam who fought to overthrow South Vietnam’s government. What were they called?
Viet Cong

6. What was the alliance of the democratic nations of western Europe and the United States?
NATO

7. What was the name of the defense treaty/military alliance between 8 Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War?
Warsaw Pact

8. What is the name of the International organization established after WWII with the goal of maintaining peace?
United Nations

9. What was the confrontation between the U. S
What was the confrontation between the U. S. and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of weapons in Cuba called?
Cuban Missile Crisis

10. What is the term that describes the imaginary line that divided Communism in Eastern Europe from Democracy in the West?  
Iron Curtain

11. What was the policy where the U. S
What was the policy where the U.S. provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and to any country threatened by Communism?
Truman Doctrine

12. What was the aid offered by the U. S
What was the aid offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII known as?  
Marshall Plan

13. What did the United States organize to bring supplies into Berlin after the blockade by the Soviet Union?
Berlin Airlift

14. The first man-made satellite sent into space by the Soviet Union was known as __________.
Sputnik

15. The belief that if one country falls to communism each of the neighboring countries will also fall to communism?
Domino Theory

16. The easing of tensions during the Cold War in the 1970s was known as a ____________.
Détente

17. What was the series of attacks by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong on the American troops throughout South Vietnam?
Tet Offensive