Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

A person killed or injured in a war

• Superpowers

• Democracy

• Casualties

• NATO

A political economic system in which government owns the factories and resources, controls the production of goods, and grants citizens few rights

• Communism

• Airlift

• Treaty

• Dictator

A promise between countries to defense or support each other

• Democracy

• Alliance

• Hostility

• Iron Curtain

North Atlantic Treaty Organization that stated they would help each other in the event of military attack.

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• NATO

• Policy of containment

Unfriendliness or opposition

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Airlift

• Hostility

Act of transporting supplies by aircraft, typically in a blockade or other emergency

• Airlift

• Treaty

• Totalitarian

• Capitalism

A nation with a lot of power and influence

• Democracy

• Dictator

• Superpowers

• Policy of containment

A system of government controlled by the people

• Treaty

• Dictator

• Iron Curtain

• Democracy

Country where one person or political party has the power to do whatever they want.

• Dictator

• Casualties

• Communism

• Democracy

Is when political systems control all public behavior and as much of private behavior as they can

• Capitalism

• Treaty

• Totalitarian

• Iron Curtain