Vocabulary Definitions
In this type of economy, private people own businesses, with minimal government involvement.
Capitalism
This organization is a military alliance of Western, Capitalist countries, formed in 1949.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
This is the intense fear of communism during the 1940s and 1950s.
The Red Scare
The President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy
This was the first satellite.
Sputnik
This country uses the acronym USSR.
The Soviet Union
This organization was a military alliance of Eastern, Communist countries, formed in 1955.
Warsaw Pact
This war lasts from 1950-1953.
The Korean War
This conflict lasts 13 days, and is the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union ever come to nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the mission that landed the US on the moon.
Apollo 11
In this type of economy, the government owns the means of production, with the goal of creating wealth equality.
Communism
This organization, which contains nearly every country in the world, was formed after the end of World War II with the goal of maintaining world peace.
United Nations
This committee investigated people, especially those in the entertainment industry, of being communists.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The date that JFK is assassinated.
November 22, 1963
The anti-war movement was about American opposition to this war.
Vietnam War
This was the US's strategy to stop communism from spreading to other countries by providing military and economic support to non-communist nations.
Containment
This is the name of the failed invasion of Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The leader of the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Mikhail Gorbachev
North Vietnam and the Viet Cong
This was the topic of Ronald Reagan's most famous speech. He gave this speech in West Berlin, and he called for the fall of the ...
Berlin Wall
This was the idea that if one democratic country became communist, the surrounding countries would also become communist.
The Domino Theory
This is the incident that gets the US more involved in the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
This was a term used to describe the trend of accusing people of being communists without real evidence.
McCarthyism
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Nikita Khrushchev
This is the day that the Soviet Union collapsed.
December 26, 1991