Global Conflicts
The Cold War kicked off after this global conflict.
What is WWII?
What is Capitalism?
Why was it called "the Cold War"?
Because the two major figures didn't engage in direct, open conflict?
This U.S. Program provided economic aid to European countries after World War II to help them rebuild their economies.
What was the Marshall Plan?
This man was President of the United States at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Harry Truman?
True or False: The stockpiling of nuclear weapons helped de-escalate the conflict between the US and the USSR.
False
This economic system is based on communal ownership and state control of the means of production.
What is communism?
The idea that if one country adopted communism, neighboring countries would also choose to adopt communism?
What is the domino effect?
This was the U.S. polict to support countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This is when two larger forces avoid direct confrontation and instead support smaller nations in their fights against each other.
What is a proxy war?
This economic system was promoted by the United States during the Cold War.
Capitalism
This term describes the intense rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union?
What is containment?
This was the name of the line that divided the Capitalist Western Europe from the Communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
These is the most well known proxy war of the 20th century
This economic system was associated with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is Communism?
This military alliance was formed by the United States and its allies during the Cold War.
This plan was the Soviet counterpart to the American Marshall Plan.
What is the Molotov Plan?
The Soviet Union's development of this weapon in 1949 intensified the Cold War and led to an arms race.
What is an atomic bomb?
This term describes the ideological battle between capitalism and democracy during in the later part of the 20th century.
What is the Cold War?
What part do capitalism and communism play in the Cold War?
It was the ideological conflict that led to global tensions.
This military pact was established by the Soviet Union in response to NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
These two alliances were created to protect members from outside aggression.
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This U.S. president was assassinated during the Cold War.
Who is John F. Kennedy?