MAAP Review Cold War Vocabulary

Air delivery of supplies to the capitol city to after the Berlin blockade.

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Eastern Soviet Bloc

The nuclear weapon used by the U.S. to force the surrender of Japan WWII.

• atomic bomb

• Hydrogen bomb

• ICBM

• ballistic missile

The division of the capital City of Germany, divided the city (by a wall) into communist and democratic sections.

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• Eastern Berlin

Using the threat of massive military (Atomic/Nuclear) retaliation for any aggression against an enemy.

• Brinkmanship

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Atomic Annihilation

• Defense Alliance

The tension between the USA and the Soviet (USSR) after WWII.

• Cold War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Spanish-American War

An economic system in which the government controls all means of production. The people have no rights.

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Fascism

The name of the European countries controlled by the Soviet Union and part of the Warsaw Pact.

• Communist (Soviet) bloc

• Democratic (Allied) Bloc

• NATO Bloc

• Warsaw Bloc

The U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread communism.

• containment

• capitalism

• conscription

• constructionism

Crisis in foreign between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba. Escalated the tensions Cold War tensions.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• U-2 Spy Plane Incident

• Bay of Pigs Incident

• Greecy Turkey Crisis

Division of Germany under the communist control (USSR)

Choose 2

• East Germany

• West Germany

• East Berlin

• West Berlin