COLD WAR VOCABULARY

BERLIN AIRLIFT

• Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens
• Russians closed off the land across Berlin

BERLIN BLOCKADE

• The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starvethe allies in Berlin
• Soviet wanted supremacy
• This led to berlin airlift

BIG THREE

• Allies during WWII
• Included: Soviet Union-Stalin, United Kingdom-Churchill, United States-Roosevelt

CAPITALISM

• An economic system
• Based on private property and free enterprise

SOCIALISM

• A political theory advocating state ownership of industry

COMMUNISM

• Political system in which government owns all property
• Government dominates all aspects of life in a country

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

• Government in which citizens elect representatives or leaders
• Representatives make decisions about the laws for all the people

COLD WAR

• 1945-1991
• Conflict that was between US and Soviet Union
• The nations never really confronted each other on battlefield
• Deadly threats went on for years

UNITED NATIONS

• International organizatin formed after WWII
• Created to promote intenational peace, security

EAST GERMANY

• After WWII Germany was divided
• This part was COMMUNIST

WEST GERMANY

• British, American and French zone of Germany
• This part was DEMOCRATIC

YALTA CONFERENCE

• 1945 meeting
• Included US president FDR,British Prime Minister Churchill
• It also included Soviet leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war Europe

NATO

• 1949
• Military alliance formed to stand firm against Soviet threats
• Made between US, Great Britain, France,and other nations
• NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION

WARSAW PACT

• Alliance between the Soviet Union and other European countries
• In response to NATO

CONTAINMENT

• American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

• US policy used in Eastern Europe
• Provided economic and military aid to countries
• used to prevent spread of communism

MARSHALL PLAN

• US policy in Western Europe
• Reconstruction funds
• Helped prevent spread of communism

JAPANESE MIRACLE

• Period of rapid economic recovery and development after WWII

OCCUPATION ZONE

• Area of Germany that had been given to other nations
• Notably to the USSR, USA, UK, and France

LIMITED GOVERNMENT

• A system in which the power of the government is limited

UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT

• Government in which leaders rule without any restrictions