Cold War Vocabulary

What is the name of the war of words and ideas between the U.S. and Soviet Union?

• Winter War

• Cold War

• Nuclear War

• Peaceful War

Who was the dictator leader of the Soviet Union during the beginning of the Cold War?

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Adolf Hitler

• Harry Truman

• Joseph Stalin

Who was the President of the United States during the beginning of the Cold War ?

• Harry Truman

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

What is a war in which powerful nuclear weapons are used?

• space race

• cold war

• nuclear war

• Civil Rights

What is the name for a race between two nations to build bigger weapons?

• economic race

• arms race

• peace race

• space race

What was the race between nations to gain advantages in space research?

• economic race

• space race

• arms race

• territory race

What was the name of the alliance among noncommunist countries to stop the spread of communism?

• Allies

• UN

• Sputnik

• NATO

What city was the capital of Germany and was split between east and west powers after World War II?

• Berlin

• Warsaw

• London

• Paris

What was the name for the concrete wall that divided East and West Berlin beginning in 1961?

• Iron Curtain

• NATO Wall

• Berlin Wall

• German Wall

What is the term for the symbolic wall that showed the political and military differences between the Soviet Union and the U.S?

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Curtain

• Sputnik Curtain

• Communist Curtain