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The Cold war
Vocab
• Cold War: the ideological
conflict between the
United States and the
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics during the
second half of the 20th
century
• Iron Curtain: Name given
the line that separated
Western (Free) Europe and
Soviet controlled
communist East Europe
• Superpower: an extremely
powerful nation
• Sphere of Influence: an
area not within its own
borders where the interest
of one large nation are
considered to be supreme.
• Communism: a final
stage of society in
Marxist theory in which
the state has withered
away and economic
goods are distributed
equitably
• Domino Theory: a theory
that if one nation
becomes Communistcontrolled the
neighboring nations will
also become Communistcontrolled
• Satellite Nation: a
country that is
dominated politically and
economically by another
nation.
• Berlin Airlift: a 327-day
operation in which U.S
and British planes flew
food and supplies into
West Berlin after the
Soviets blockaded the
city in 1948.
• Containment: the
blocking of another
nation’s attempt to
spread its influence,
especially the efforts of
the United States to
block the spread of
Soviet influence during
the late 1940s and
early 1950s.
• North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO): a
defensive military
alliance formed in 1949
by ten Western
European countries,
the United States, and
Canada
• Ballistic Missile: a
• Blacklist: a list of about
rocket-powered object,
500 actors, writers,
often carrying a nuclear
producers, and
warhead, which is shot
directors who were not
into the air and hits its
allowed to work on
ground target after a
Hollywood films
free fall.
because of their
alleged Communist
• Collective Security: a
connections.
system of maintaining
world peace and
• Subversives: people
security by concerted
who work secretly
action on the part of
inside a country to
the nations of the
overthrow the
world
government.
• United Nations: an
international
peacekeeping
organization to which
most nations in the
world belong, founded
in 1945 to promote
world peace, security,
and economic
development.
• Stalemate: a drawn
contest: deadlock.
• Limited War: President
Truman’s plan to keep
the Korean War on the
Korean Peninsula,
rather than enlarging it
by attacking China or
using nuclear weapons.
• Brinkmanship: the
practice of threatening
an enemy with massive
military retaliation for
any aggression.
• Berlin Wall: a concrete wall
that separated East Berlin
and West Berlin from 1961
to 1989, built by the
Communist East German
government to prevent its
citizens from fleeing to the
West.
• Hotline: a communication
link established in 1963 to
allow the leaders of the
United States and the
Soviet Union to contact
each other in times of
crisis.
• Peaceful Coexistence:
competition without
war, or a policy of
peace between nations
of widely differing
political systems and
ideologies, especially
between Communist
and non-Communist
nations
• Détente: the flexible policy,
involving a willingness to
negotiate and an easing of
tensions that was adopted by
President Richard Nixon and his
adviser Henry Kissinger in their
dealings with communist
nations.
• SALT 1 Treaty: a five-year
agreement between the United
States and the Soviet Union,
signed in 1972 that limited the
nations’ numbers of
intercontinental ballistic
missiles and submarinelaunched missiles.
• Glastnost: the open
discussion of social
problems that was
permitted in the Soviet
Union in the 1980s.
• Perestroika: the
restructuring of the
economy and the
government instituted
in the Soviet Union in
the 1980s.
• Détente: the flexible policy,
involving a willingness to
negotiate and an easing of
tensions that was adopted by
President Richard Nixon and his
adviser Henry Kissinger in their
dealings with communist
nations.
• SALT 1 Treaty: a five-year
agreement between the United
States and the Soviet Union,
signed in 1972 that limited the
nations’ numbers of
intercontinental ballistic
missiles and submarinelaunched missiles.
• Glastnost: the open
discussion of social
problems that was
permitted in the Soviet
Union in the 1980s.
• Perestroika: the
restructuring of the
economy and the
government instituted
in the Soviet Union in
the 1980s.