Cold War

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  1. 2. Project, Secret U.S. government project during World War II that built the first atomic bombs.
  2. 4. Race, A competition during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve major achievements in space exploration.
  3. 7. An economic system where individuals and businesses own property and make money by producing and selling goods or services.
  4. 10. Economic system where the government or community owns and controls important resources and services (like healthcare, education, or factories) to make things more equal for everyone.
  5. 14. the Turtle, A cartoon character used in a Cold War safety film to teach kids what to do if there was a nuclear attack.
  6. 15. Assured Destruction, An understanding that a full scale nuclear exchange would annihilate both sides
  7. 16. Curtain, Term used during the Cold War to describe the division between communist Eastern Europe and non-communist Western Europe.
  8. 17. Man, The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States during World War II.
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  1. 1. A time in the United States during the early Cold War when people were accused of being communists, often without strong evidence.
  2. 3. Race, A competition during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union to build more and stronger weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
  3. 5. The first place ever hit by an atomic bomb.
  4. 6. Plan, A program started by the United States after World War II to help rebuild countries in Europe as long as they were not Communist.
  5. 8. An economic system where the government has control and there is no private ownership
  6. 9. Policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism to new countries.
  7. 11. Missile Crisis, A tense situation in 1962 when the United States discovered that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  8. 12. Boy, The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II by the United States.
  9. 13. of Pigs, An event in 1961 when a group of Cuban exiles, supported by the United States, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow its leader.