Cold War Vocabulary
Term:
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Containment:
The U.S. policy of fighting the
spread of communism by
limiting it to countries where it
already existed
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Capitalism
An economic system based on
private property and free
markets
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Communism
A political system in which all
economic and social activity is
controlled by a totalitarian
state dominated by one political
party
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Is not like:
COLD WAR:
the global struggle for power
and influence between the
United States and the Soviet
Union that followed World
War II
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Is like:
Domino Theory:
the belief that if one nation in
Asia fell to the Communists,
neighboring countries would
follow
Cold War Vocabulary
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Something that separates or
divides
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Iron Curtain:
the political and military
barrier (imaginary) that
isolated Soviet-controlled
communist countries of Eastern
Europe from democratic
Western Europe after World
War II
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Arms Race:
a competition to develop more
and more powerful weapons
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Proxy Wars:
Wars in which the superpowers
backed different sides that
acted as substitutes (proxies)
for the superpowers themselves
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Stalemate
A situation during a conflict
when action stops because both
sides are equally powerful and
neither will give in