Cold War Vocabulary

Containment

• a principle of US foreign policy  to prevent the expansion of Communist power
• a principle of US foreign policy to keep secrets from all foreign countries
• a principal of US foreign policy to expand nuclear power to allied countries
• a principal of US foreign policy to defeat North Korea 

Domino Theory

• a game played by leaders of the Super Powers during the cold war
• idea that all communist countries could be eliminated by eliminating the USSR
•  a theory that if one nation becomes Communist-controlled the neighboring nations will also become Communist-controlled
• the order in which all communist countries could be eliminted

DMZ

• domino missile zone
• demilitarized zone
• desensitized military zone
• destroyed major zones

Cuban Missile Crisis

• 13 day period when US was threatened by nuclear war with North Korea
• 13 day period when the USSR was threatened by nuclear war with Cuba
• a crisis created by John F Kennedy to get support for the Cold War
• 13 day period when US was threatened by nuclear warheads in Cuba

naval blockade

• military strategy used by the US against Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
• blockade of all naval bases to prevent nuclear war
• blockade of Soviet naval bases during the Korean War
• military strategy to blockade missile sites in communist countries

MAD

• US anger against Soviet intervention in Cuba
• Mutually assured destruction - if any country begins a nuclear war, all will be destroyed
• Military Assisted Destruction - the US military could take out any threat of nuclear war
• a policy to diffuse the Soviet's anger toward the US

Marshall Plan

• General Marshall's plan to attack North Korea
• Cold War plan to destroy communism
• post WWII plan to rebuild Europe
• General Marshall's plan to put a naval blockade around Cuba

communism

•  the state and the people jointly own and operate industry 
•  the people own and operate industry for themselves
•  the state owns and operates industry on behalf of the people
•   the military controls the people on behalf of the government

capitalism

• industry is privately owned by the people
• the government owns and operates all industry
• the military controls all industry
• all industry is controlled and located in a country's capital

arms race

• Sport competition to determine the superpowers of the world
• Competition between the superpowers to determine which country had the strongest army
• An Olympic event involving a race to win an arm wrestling competition
• competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms