Cold War & Decolonization

The foreign policy stance the United States used during the Cold War. The goal of the policy was to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading its communist ideology to other parts of the world.

• Dissident

• Colonialism

• Containment

• Dispersal

Decolonization

• When one nation sends its own people to live on and take control of the resources of another territory or nation.

• When a group of people, formerly ruled by an outside nation, gains independent status as a nation.

• The forced removal of a certain group of people from their homelands.

• The transformation of raw materials into manufactured goods such as automobiles.

In reference to atomic and hydrogen bombs and missiles

• Nuclear

• Incendiary

• Containment

• Dissident

A country or region that another country has informal power over but no formal authority. Both the USA and the USSR amassed (gained) an number of these countrie under its own __________.

• Industrialization

• Colonization

• Sphere of Influence

• Communism

Superpower

• A nation that takes control of the entire globe.

• A nation that has nuclear weapons.

• A nation with substantial (or great) power and influence in international affairs

• A newly independent nation who is no longer ruled by a colonial power.

A type of government and economic system in which the state owns the means of production and distribution of goods in the society. It operates on a theory of equality. The collective good is glorified over the individual.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Fascism

An economic system in which ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods is in the hands of private individuals and corporations. Government control is minimal and is limited to regulation for the public good, as opposed to ownership and control.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Fascism

• Capitalism