Cold War Key Terms Quiz (Chapter 13)

to free

• nuclear

• liberate

• communes

• satellite state

a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country

• satellite state

• policy of containment

• permanent revolution

• proxy war

a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves

• policy of containment

• proxy war

• domino theory

• deterrence

the act of building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy

• arms race

• nuclear

• proxy war

• domino theory

being a weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction

• nuclear

• deterrence

• communes

• liberate

During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with devastating power

• deterrence

• proxy war

• domino theory

• arms race

• policy of containment

group living arrangements in which members share everything and work together

• communes

• deterrence

• liberate

• satellite state

an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor favored by Mao Zedong to enable China to overcome the past and achieve the final stage of communism

• permanent revolution

• proxy war

• policy of containment

• domino theory

a war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly

• proxy war

• domino theory

• satellite state

• policy of containment

the idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall

• domino theory

• permanent revolution

• policy of containment

• deterrence