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The Cold War

Published on Dec 02, 2015

Cold War Vocabulary Definitions.

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COLD WAR VOCAB

BY MATTHEW CLIFTON
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SOCIALISM

  • A political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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COMMUNISM

  • A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
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REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

  • A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people
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COLD WAR

  • 1945-1991/ a conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union/ the nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years
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BIG THREE

  • allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt
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UNITED NATIONS

  • An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation
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CAPITALISM

  • An economic system based on private property and free enterprise
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EAST GERMANY

  • After WWII, Germany was divided into two countries, this part was COMMUNIST
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WEST GERMANY

  • British, American and French zone of Germany and was DEMOCRATIC
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YALTA CONFRENCE

  • 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Winston
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BERLIN BLOCKADE

  • The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy/ blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift
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BERLIN AIRLIFT

  • B airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
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NATO

  • 1949/ military alliance formed to stand firm against Soviet military threats/ made b
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WARSAW PACT

  • An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations/ in response to the NATO
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CONTAINMENT

  • American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
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TRUMAN DOCTERINE

  • US policy used in Eastern Europe/ provided economic and military aid
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MARSHALL PLAN

  • US policy used in Western Europe/ reconstruction funds/ helped prevent the spread of communism
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JAPENESE MIRACLE

  • Period of rapid economic recovery and development after World War II
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OCCUPATION ZONE

  • Area of Germany that had been given to other nations, notably to the USSR, USA, UK, and France
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LIMITED GOVERNMENT

  • a system in which the power of the government is limited
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UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT

  • government in which leaders rule without any restrictions

Matthew Clifton

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