Cold War

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  1. 2. This foreign policy was created by the U.S. which proposed and obtained a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of U.S. military forces to intervene in any country that appeared likely to fall to communism. It was used in the Middle East
  2. 3. A destructive bomb that rapidly releases nuclear energy causing damage through heat and blast and radioactivity
  3. 5. The authoritarian leader of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century
  4. 7. An economic system in which prices are determined by open competition between privately owned businesses
  5. 9. The name of the U.S. humanitarian operation in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
  6. 10. A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states in response to NATO
  7. 11. A political system in which all property is owned by the state and each citizen works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
  8. 14. Satellites launched by the Soviet Union during the Space Race
  9. 16. This was a plan from the United States to rebuild and revive war-torn economies of Europe
  10. 18. The US policy of preventing the spread of communism often through economic and political and military means without direct confrontation
  11. 20. “Rule by the people” a system of government in which the citizens have a say in how the government runs by voting and electing government officials
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  1. 1. This person was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia. In a speech at the United Nations he threatened to "bury the United States"
  2. 4. A 13-day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba
  3. 6. An economic system characterized by private ownership and free markets and competition with the goal of profit maximization. This system was in direct contrast to the communist ideology
  4. 8. This alliance began in 1949 for defense initiated by the United States Canada and 10 Western European nations
  5. 12. A system to organize society with the goal of spreading wealth more evenly and treating all people fairly. The government owns and regulates the means of trade and production rather than private ownership in a free market
  6. 13. This president sent advisors to Vietnam and resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis and challenged America to land a man on the moon and was assassinated in Dallas in 1963
  7. 15. A metaphor used to describe the ideological and physical barrier between Western Europe and the Soviet Union and its satellite states
  8. 17. A method of spreading ideas with bias
  9. 19. A guarded concrete wall that was 28 miles long erected across the city of Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and torn down in 1989