Cold War Defintions

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  1. 5. Shelter / a building or other structure designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.
  2. 6. and Cover / a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion.
  3. 10. / agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
  4. 12. state / a state that is economically, politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful state in international affairs.
  5. 13. Party / a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.
  6. 16. / led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982
  7. 18. / a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut.
  8. 19. / the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  9. 22. Chi Minh / Former prime minister of Vietnam
  10. 23. Pact / known as the Treaty of Friendship
  11. 25. / the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, the only president to resign the office.
  12. 26. / art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  13. 31. / served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
  14. 32. / a system where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs
  15. 33. / American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States
  16. 34. Wall / a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
  17. 37. / used to describe a state with a dominant position.
  18. 40. / Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues.
  19. 41. / a weapon that is self-propelled or directed by remote control, carrying conventional or nuclear explosive.
  20. 44. / Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister
  21. 45. / The HUAC held nine days of hearings that attempted to investigate alleged Communist propaganda and influence in the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry.
  22. 46. Theory / theory posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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  1. 1. Curtain / the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas.
  2. 2. / the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the basis of communism.
  3. 3. Doctrine / an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  4. 4. / 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
  5. 7. Plan / an American initiative to aid Western Europe
  6. 8. / used to promote a political cause or point of view.
  7. 9. / the practice in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  8. 11. the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system.
  9. 14. / is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe.
  10. 15. war / The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America
  11. 17. Menace / term used during the Cold War era to describe the Soviet Union or an "international communist conspiracy"
  12. 20. / the principal policy making committee of a communist party.
  13. 21. / the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union.
  14. 24. / a citizen of the former Soviet Union.
  15. 27. / leader of the Soviet Union from 1955 until 1964, succeeding Joseph Stalin.
  16. 28. War / a war between North Korea and South Korea.
  17. 29. missile crisis / a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
  18. 30. Charlie / name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
  19. 35. Assured Destruction / a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy.
  20. 36. / Society in which the citizens are sovereign and control the government.
  21. 38. Race / a competition between two or more states to have the best armed forces.
  22. 39. / alert state used by the United States Armed Forces.
  23. 40. Francis Shelter /
  24. 42. / the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite
  25. 43. Zedong