Vocabulary
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the USSR during WW2 and beginning of the Cold War
Capitalism
Free markets
Private ownership
Little to no regulation
United Nations
A large international organization created after WW2 meant to promote peace between nations
Spheres of Influence
Mahatma Gandhi
A prominent figure in the freedom efforts of India
Known for his humble lifestyle and devout Hindu faith
Communism
Heavy government regulation
Property is publically owned
Eastern Bloc
USSR and its sphere of influence
NATO
North Atlantic Trade Organization
America and its closest allies
Cash Crop
Karl Marx
Author of the Communist Manifesto
Berlin Wall
Wall separating eastern communist Germany with Western democratic Germany
Apartheid
A system of strict legal racism
Adam Smith
Inventor of Capitalism
Wrote the Wealth of Nations
Scottish Enlightenment figure
Mercantilism
A system where it is believed that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that nations/individuals must take as much as possible
Explain the importance of Greece and Turkey during the Cold War
Communist guerrillas were threatening to take out the western sympathetic governments
League of Nations
Prototype to the UN
Failed due to the US Senate denying the US entry
McCarthyism
Ideology of scaring accused communists during the days of the red scare
King Leopold II of Belgium
He set in motion a race among European nations to claim African territory
Butcher of the Congo
Domino Theory
The fear that if one country fell to communism the rest in that area would do the same
Warsaw Pact
Formal organization comprising of the USSR's sphere of influence