Events of the Cold War
The US and USSR were competing to build more nuclear weapons than the other
What was the Arms Race?
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.
What was Capitalism?
A time where people in the U.S suspected people of being communist or spies
What is the Red scare?
The countries apart of the Warsaw Pact
What is the soviet union and it's satellites
Wars the U.S and USSR were not directly involved in.
What are proxy wars?
The father of capitalism
Who is Adam Smith?
The US believed that if one country fell to capitalism, they all would.
What was Domino Theory?
The goal of these were to encourage rapid industrialization amongst the USSR.
What were Stalin's Five-Year Plans?
The dates the cold war started and ended
What is 1947-1991
The countries apart of NATO
What is the U.S, Britain, Canada, and France?
The American policy to prevent Communism from spreading
What was Containment?
The imaginary line that divided the Western European countries from the Eastern European countries
what is the Iron curtain
A period of relaxed tensions, and improved relations
What is Detente
Who was Karl Marx?
President who was in office during the cuban missile
Who is JFK?
Some of the causes were heavy military losses in WWI, food and fuel shortages, and opposition to the czar.
What led to the Russian Revolution?
Wars that divided north korea and vietnam into communist and south korea and vietnam into non-communist.
What is the Korean and Vietnam war
The political belief that all people are equal, that there should be no private ownership and that workers should control the means of producing things.
What is Communism?
An aid program with the purpose to stop the spread of communism by giving aid to non communist countries in Europe
What is the Marshall plan?
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
What is Bolshevik?