Cold War Vocabulary

2. a competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons especially between the US and the Soviet Union
6. the wall that separated communist east Germany from Democratic West Germany
7. a policy of preventing the expansion of communism to other countries by creating alliances or providing economic or military support to countries threatened by a communist take-over
8. he reduced the use of terror and released millions of political prisoners
12. When the United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another to conquer outer space
13. an organization consisting of the United States, Canada, Great Britain and other European countries for the purpose of collective security
14. US President Harry Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by ideology
15. a United States program (1948-1952) providing financial aid to Western European countries for reconstruction after World War 11
16. effort by the United States, Great Britain and France to thwart the Blockade of Berlin by flying supplies to West Berlin

1. a military alliance established in 1955 of Eastern European countries, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, and Romania for the purpose of collective security
3. countries controlled by a more powerful nation
4. period in 1958, in which the Soviet Union blockaded all land and rail routes into West Berlin in an attempt to create a unified East Germany by forcing the US, Great Britain and France to turn over control of West Berlin
5. the term for an invisible political line, divided Europe
9. European economic community
10. Southeast Treaty Organization, an alliance that included the United States, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand
11. Central Treaty Organization had six members--Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States