Name:______________________________________________ Date:________ Period:__________
Cold War Vocabulary Quiz:
1. economic system where the means of production are privately owned & operated for a profit
“Free Market System”
2. “leave business alone” – policy in which government takes a hands off approach to business &
does not interfere
3. economic system in which all wealth & property is owned by the government
4. economic system where the people as a whole own all the property & business
5. Term given to the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
6. The U.S. and Soviet Union spent great amounts of money to develop more and more powerful
weapons
7. Term given to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
to advance their space programs
8. Soviet satellite put into orbit around Earth in 1957. It was the first man made satellite put into orbit
9. a conflict between U.S. and Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the
battlefield.
10. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met in the Soviet Union. They agreed to divide up Germany. Stalin also
promised free elections in Soviet occupied Eastern European nations, to join the war against Japan and
participate in the United Nations.
11. organization intended to promote world peace. The U.N. is located in NYC.
12. Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Clement Altee met to determine the fate of
Eastern Europe. Germany was divided into 4 zones. Stalin prevents free elections in Poland and Eastern
Europe.
13. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall gave money to European countries who needed to rebuild
after WW2. (to stop the spread of communism)
14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization – 12 members pledged military support to one another in case of
attack. United States was a member.
15. a military alliance between seven Eastern European nations. Soviet Union was a member
16. 35th President of the United States (1961-63)
17. led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
18. (1926-? ) Communist dictator of Cuba. He is responsible for making Cuba a socialist country which
has often been at odds with the United States. Notably, the bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
19. (1961) Crisis that developed as a result of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s decision to allow the Soviet
Union to base nuclear missiles in Cuba
20. (1904-1997) Chinese Communist leader. Ruled from 1978 until 1997
21. An economic and social program that called for limited privatization of agriculture and industry.
Unlike the Great Leap Forward, the Four Modernizations was an economic success.
22. A political and social protest by university students in Beijing, China. Many of the protestors were
either killed or imprisoned.
23. A war between North Korea, which was supported by both the Soviet Union and communist China,
and South Korea, which was supported by the United States and the United Nations
24. Line of latitude which divided North and South Korea
25. A wall built in 1961 dividing Soviet controlled East Berlin from the democratic West Berlin.
26. A re-supply operation to the city of Berlin that lasted 11 months during 1948-49 when the Soviet
Union attempted to close off the city.
27. A cold war policy that called for containing (stop the spread of) communism to areas already under
its influence. (President Harry Truman)
28. The Soviet Union’s policy of isolation during the Cold War. The Iron Curtain isolated Eastern Europe
from the rest of the world.
29. 1893-1976 Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew the Nationalist Party
30. March the Mao Zedong and his Communist Party underwent to avoid being captured and killed by
China’s Nationalist Party
31. Militaristic group of students in China who brutalized anyone who criticized Mao’s government
32. Political policy in started in China by Mao Zedong to eliminate his rivals and train a new generation in
the revolutionary spirit that created communist China
33. The economic program designed to increase farm and industrial output (communes)
34. Between the French and Vietnamese, as France was attempting to hold onto its colony. The second
war was between the U.S. and the communist forces of N. Vietnam
36. Area of southeast Asia controlled by France during Imperialism. Includes Cambodia, Laos, and
Vietnam.
37. (1890-1969) Vietnamese leader who is responsible for ousting first the French, then the United
States from his country. Supported by both communist China and the Soviet Union, he guided Vietnam
through decades long warfare to emerge as a communist nation.
38. The idea that countries bordering communist countries were in more danger of falling to
communism unless the United States and other western nations worked to prevent it.
39. (1931-) leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, which
aimed to revitalizing the Soviet Union contributed to the downfall of communism
40. A policy of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the Soviet economy by opening it up to
more free enterprise
41. A policy of Soviet leader Mikail Gorbachev which called for more openness with the nations of West,
and relaxing of restraints on Soviet citizenry
42. a policy during the cold war which was aimed at relaxing tensions between the US and the Soviet
Union. The policy calls for increase diplomatic and commercial activity.
Word Bank:
Great Leap Forward
Glasnost
Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy
Ho Chi Minh
Mikhail Gorbachev
Korean War
Berlin Wall
Mao Zedong
Marshall Plan
Capitalism
Socialism
Superpowers
Perestroika
domino theory
Deng Xiaoping
Four Modernizations
Space Race
Red Guard
Long March
Laissez-Faire
38th Parallel
Potsdam Conference
French Indochina
Iron Curtain
Sputnik
Fidel Castro
Glasnost
United Nations
Berlin Airlift
Cultural Revolution
Communism
Warsaw Pact
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
containment
Arms Race
Cold War
Yalta Conference
NATO
Vietnam Conflict/War
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Detente