Cold War Notes - Vocabulary Review

A formal agreement between two or more countries dealing with peace, alliance, commerce (business), or other international relations.

• policy

• containment

• treaty/pact

• administration

A country’s plan dealing with a problem or an issue.

• policy

• glasnost

• NATO

• administration

The quality of responding to an attack in a way that is fair and not too harsh or too weak.

• appeasement

• proxy war

• containment

• proportionality

A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.

• arms race

• nationalism

• policy

• containment

A loyalty and devotion to one’s nation over others. This belief is that one’s nation, along with its culture and interests, are superior to and above all others and should be strongly promoted.

• treaty

• patriotism

• nationalism

• perestroika

A policy aimed at controlling the spread of communism around the world.

• proportionality

• appeasement

• totalitarianism

• containment

A form of government in which one person is in a ruler of a country who has with total power over his people and usually acquires and maintains that power with force.

• The Red Scare

• capitalism

• democracy

• dictatorship

A group of individuals chosen by the president to head up of all of the offices, departments and agencies found within the executive branch. These individuals act as advisors to the president and help him carry out his policies and the laws passed by Congress.

• administration

• glasnost

• diplomacy

• pact

The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow one after the other.

• appeasement

• collective security

• domino theory

• proxy war

A system by which states have attempted to prevent or stop wars. This policy states that when a nation attacks any other nation, its allies will come to its aid. In simple terms, an attack of one ally is an attack on all allies

• nationalism

• domino theory

• containment

• collective security