Cold War Vocabulary

3. A political and economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which the means of production are owned and controlled communally, often through the state.
4. A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve milestones in space exploration.
6. A concrete barrier erected by East Germany in 1961 that physically divided East and West Berlin.
11. Policies in communist states to reassign ownership of land, wealth, and resources.
16. A military doctrine based on the idea that the use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
17. A series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
18. An economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, free markets, competition, and the pursuit of profit.
19. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the perceived threat of the Soviet expansion.

1. The process of former colonies gaining independence.
2. An international organization founded in 1945 after WWII to promote international peace and cooperation.
5. Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the ideological and physical boundary dividing Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western Europe during the Cold War.
7. A competition between nations to develop and accumulate superior weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, during the Cold War.
8. The nonviolent refusal to obey laws or governmental demands as a form of protest.
9. A tense 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
10. An economic and political union of European countries that evolved from earlier post-World War II efforts at European integration.
12. A system of government in which the power to rule is held by the people, typically through elected representatives.
13. The use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, for political aims.
14. A collective defense treaty established in 1955 by the Soviet Unions and its satellite states in eastern Europe as a response to NATO.
15. Nations that were formally independent but were heavily influenced and controlled politically and economically by the USSR.