Topic 20 Cold War in Europe Academic Language (WS)

Match the following

• Harry Truman

• Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also famous for denouncing Stalin and allowed criticism of Stalin within Russia. Sought peaceful coexistence with the West

• John F. Kennedy

• President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Nikita Khrushchev

• 33rd President of the United States. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the WWII

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and encouraged openness and political reform

Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy ​ (a)  

• Berlin Blockade
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment
• Marshall Plan
• Warsaw Pact
• Solidarity
• Iron Curtain
• Detente

nations with economic resources and military might to dominate the globe​ (a)  

• Superpower
• Marshall Plan
• Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Ideology
• Cold War
• Command Economy

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

• United Nations
• KGB

• League of Nations

• CIA

a political, military and ideological "curtain" split between the democratic nations and communist nations in Europe​ (a)  

• Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Berlin Blockade
• Berlin Airlift
• Containment
• Solidarity
• Command Economy
• Ideology

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world​ (a)  

• Truman Doctrine
• Containment
• Berlin Airlift
• Ideology
• Iron Curtain
• Capitalism

Match the following

• Truman Doctrine

• supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Berlin Blockade

• President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

• Marshall Plan

• Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy.

• Berlin Airlift

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) helped reduce communist influence

Match the following

• Democracy

• an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Capitalism

• a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political policy

• Communism

• an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.

• Command Economy

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• Ideology

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.​ (a)  

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Detente
• Solidarity
• Glasnost
• Perestroika

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.​ (a)  

• Cold War
• M.A.D.
• Six Strategies of the Cold War
• Brinkmanship
• Warsaw Pact
• Glasnost
• Perestroika