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Grade 6 ▪ Second and Fourth Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Cold War
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rivalry
The condition of competing with
somebody else; competition.
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Cold War
A state of tension between the
United States and the Soviet
Union without actual fighting that
divided the world into two camps.
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capitalist
A believer in capitalism which is
an economic system based on
private property and free
enterprise; the USA has this type
of system.
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Ruled by dictatorship.
dictatorial
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NATO
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization
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Warsaw Pact
An organization that had an
agreement that “an armed attack
against one or more of the
member nations shall be
considered an attack against all”.
The counterpart of NATO, and had
a military force that the Soviet
Union controlled.
Grade 6 ▪ Second and Fourth Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Cold War
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stalemate
A situation during a conflict when
action stops because both sides
are equally powerful and neither
side will give in.
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blockade
An organized action to prevent
entrance or exit of a place.
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cease-fire
To come to an end without firing
any weapons.
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Berlin Wall
A concrete wall built in West
Berlin to keep people in the
communist area from escaping.
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military
intervention
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tension
Military action undertaken in order
to change what is happening or
might happen in another country.
Uneasy feeling in a relationship,
mistrust, controlled hostility, or
fear of hostility felt by countries,
groups, or individuals in their
dealings with one another.
Grade 6 ▪ Second and Fourth Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Cold War
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A system of social beliefs.
ideologies
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containment
The policy of preventing the
expansion of a hostile power
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Cuban
Missile Crisis
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Domino
Theory
When the Soviet Union placed
missiles in Cuba. The Soviets
removed the missiles in response
to a U.S. blockade.
Coined by President Eisenhower,
a belief that if one country is
taken over by communism, then
all surrounding countries will fall
to communism.
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To remove all troops
withdraw
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To fail abruptly
collapse
Grade 6 ▪ Second and Fourth Nine Weeks ▪ US History Vocabulary ▪ Cold War
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worldwide
global
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Korea
During the Korean War, Korea
separated into North and South Korea
along the 38th parallel of latitude, with
the Soviets controlling the North and
America controlling the South.
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Cuba
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Vietnam
A large island just south of
Florida in which the Cuban Missile
Crisis took place.
Vietnam was the country in which
more than 58,000 American troops
died in the longest conflict in
American History for the fight
against communism.