GED SS Vocab The Cold War

A Cold War is a war that is:

Fought only in the winter

Not a combat-based war, rather fought over an idea or concept

Fought by hostile leaders

A type of war that defends fascism

What is a proxy war?

A war fought by a large army called a Proxy

A war fought in a mountainous region

A conflict fought by groups that are not fighting directly but through war between other parties

A war fought only with Communist nations

Communism can be defined as:

A government plan to even the economy and treat everyone equally

A social system based on the idea of economic equality through government control of property

A social system where the government controls everything

The direct opposite of democracy

The Iron Curtain was defined as what?

A literal metal curtain keeping people from freer areas in a country

A line on a map which divided democratic countries and communist-influenced states

Countries ruled with an iron fisted-ruler like Mussolini

The area that contains all the threats to freedom in a country

The Truman Doctrine did what?

Allowed intervention to foreign countries to support democracy in the threat of communism

Made Harry Truman a direct leader or

Helped promote democracy in nations where there was none

Allowed the US to support democracy in many different ways

What did the creation and hoarding of nuclear weapons amount to?

The country with the most weapons wins

The country with the best technology wins

The country with all the weapons wins

"Mutually assured destruction - if one country uses a weapon, then everyone loses

How would you define the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A peace treaty between the US and Russia that was signed in Cuba

A standoff between the US and Russia over nuclear missiles in Cuba

The occupation of Cuba with a naval base

The inability of Cuba to manufacture missles

Why is the Korean War discussed as part of the Cold War?

The soviet-supported government of North Korea invaded non-Communist, US supported South Korea

The democratic nation of South Korea wanted to be more democratic like America

The US wanted to declare nuclear war on both North and South Korea

North and South Korea began the proxy wars of the Cold War

During the Cold War, what was the "space race?"

The race to get a prime parking space at the White House

Competition with Russia to be first to achieve space exploration

A competition with China to place a man on the moon

During the Cold War, McCarthyism and the "red scare" were about what fear?

The spread of Communism in America

A law passed by Senator McCarthy that banned all Communists from America

An endeavor by Senator McCarthy that forced Communists in America to become Republicans

An algae bloom in the Delaware River

GED SS Vocab The Cold War

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