Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

To oppose something without using violence.

• capitalism

• communism

• passive resistance

• suburbs

The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.

• desegregation

• containment

• communism

• capitalism

The bittter struggle between the US and the Soviet Union, no direct attacking.

• Civil War

• Cold War

• WWI

• WWII

Type of economic system where businesses are privately owne and run by the people, rather than by the government; US economy

• capitalism

• communism

• arms race

• space race

The ending of a policy of racial segregation.

• containment

• desegregation

• segregation

• Cold War

A government controls businesses; little private ownership, government controls most everything

• capitalism

• communism

• civil rights

• GI Bill of Rights

Rights guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution.

• GI Bill of Rights

• civil rights

• capitalism

• desegregation

race to build more and better weapons than your enemy

• space race

• passive resistance

• arms race

• containment

law that provided benefits to help veterans; money for education, training, loans for homes, farms and businesses, help finding a job.

• GI Bill of Rights

• civil rights

• desegregtion

• suburbs

Communities near the edge of town.

• suburbs

• urban

• ghettos

• containment