The Cold War

4. political rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union and their allies after WWII
6. WWII meeting of the heads of government of the US, UK, and Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe
9. government that appears independent but is actually controlled by another country
12. proposed that the US provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe
13. french colonial territories in mainland southeast asia
14. the fight between the US and the Soviet Union to be the first to explore space
15. a country that is formally independent in the world but under heavy political control by another country

1. collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and 7 Soviet satellite states
2. geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by US to prevent the spread of communism after the end of WWII
3. a metaphor for the political and ideology boundary that divided Europe
5. guarded concrete barrier that prevented people from escaping the soviet controlled east berlin to west berlin
7. a pattern of competitive acquisition of military capability between US and Soviet Union
8. prohibits all opposition parties, concentration of power in a single centre
10. failed military landing on the southwest coast of cuba in 1961 by Cuban democratic revolutionary front
11. a group of 31 countries from Europe and North America that protect the people and territory of its members from the Soviet Union