The Cold War

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  1. 3. The belief that communist countries would spread their influence to other countries in the same region.
  2. 8. A capitalist democracy formed in 1776.
  3. 12. A war that erupted in 1950 between the Communist North Korean forces and the Democratic South Korean forces, and eventually involved Chinese and United Nations forces.
  4. 14. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was formed in 1949 as a military alliance between the United States and its allies in Western Europe.
  5. 16. The military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe, created in 1955 in response to NATO.
  6. 17. A system of government where a ruler or a small group of rulers holds absolute political power.
  7. 20. A meeting of leaders from the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union in 1945 to discuss the post-war reorganization of Europe.
  8. 22. Weak countries that are economically dependent on and politically faithful to another more powerful country.
  9. 25. The leader of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953 and one of the key architects of the Cold War.
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  1. 1. Different ideas and values held by two powerful countries or groups (in this case, the United States and the Soviet Union) that lead to conflict.
  2. 2. The dissolution of the USSR in 1991 and the end of the Cold War.
  3. 4. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop and stockpile nuclear weapons.
  4. 5. A policy of relaxed tensions between countries.
  5. 6. A military conflict fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies from 1959 to 1975.
  6. 7. The term used to describe the physical and ideological barrier separating the Soviet Union and its allied countries from the Western world.
  7. 9. A system of government where the state owns all of the means of production and the people have equal rights and opportunities.
  8. 10. A global war fought from 1939 to 1945 primarily between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and many others).
  9. 11. Information, ideas, and opinions that are spread deliberately by an individual or a group to further their own interests.
  10. 13. The use of one country's military resources to fight another country's battles.
  11. 15. An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and driven by the forces of competition and the profit motive.
  12. 18. A series of airlifts conducted by the United States, Great Britain, France, and others to provide food, fuel, and other supplies to the people of West Berlin after the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the city in 1948.
  13. 19. Also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was a communist country that was formed out of the Soviet Republics after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  14. 21. McCarthy: A United States Senator who conducted a high-profile witch-hunt against communists in the United States in the 1950s.
  15. 23. The 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, succeeding President Franklin Roosevelt.
  16. 24. Attempts to limit or stop the building and stockpiling of weapons, and to reduce the nuclear stockpiles of countries.