2. Cold War Vocabulary

3. capitalism

4. Economic system based on private ownership and the free market

5. communism

6. Economic system based on government ownership and control of resources

7. Marxism

8. Economic and political philosophy based on the writings of Karl Marx Basis of many communist governments

9. McCarthy-ism

10. Red Scare Witch hunts accusations of disloyalty without evidence Senator McCarthy made accusations of people being communists and traitors during the Cold War.

11. appeasement

12. Giving in to avoid conflict

13. isolationist

15. Containment

16. Stop Soviet communist expansion

17. Arms Race

18. A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to make the most nuclear and the best weapons.

19. Arms Race 1949 Soviet Union tested its own atom bomb 1952 U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb 1953 Soviet Union tested its own hydrogen bomb

20. Space Race

21. Competition between the US and the USSR to explore space Russia put up the first satellite and sent the first man into space US landed the first man on the moon

22. Apollo 11 The Moon Landing 1969

23. Iron Curtain

24. A metaphor for the division between the communist and democratic countries of Europe

25. Truman Doctrine

26. We will stop Communism. We will help any country that is threatened by Communists We will stop Communism. We will help any country that is threatened by Communists

27. the United States would provide foreign aid to any country threatened by communist expansion Truman Doctrine

28. OAS 1948

29. Organization of American States To promote peace, economic development, and democracy in the U.S., Central and South America 1948

30. NATO 1949

31. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance between the U.S., Canada, and 10 Western European Nations To provide mutual defense and peacekeeping 1949

32. Warsaw Pact 1955

33. Formed in response to NATO Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European nations To provide mutual defense 1955

35. SEATO 1955

36. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization To prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia 1955

37. Proxy War

38. USSR (Russia) didn’t want to fight US US didn’t want to fight USSR (Russia)

39. Proxy War Two sides that don’t want to fight each other directly use a third parties to fight for them The Korea war is an example

40. Red Scare

41. A time of extreme anti-communism in the United States People were scared that communists had infiltrated the government