THE COLD WAR

CAPITOLISM

• An economic system based on private property and free enterprise

SOCIALISM

• A political theory advocating state ownership of industry

COMMUNISM

• The government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

• government in which citizens elect representatives to make decisions about the laws for all

THR COLD WAR

• 1945-1991/ a conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union/ the nations never directly confronted each other

BIG THREE

• Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt

UNITED NATIONS

• organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

EAST GERMANY

• Germany was divided into two countries, this part was COMMUNIST

WEST GERMANY

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

YALTA CONFERENCE

• Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin

BERLIN BLOCKADE

• blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy

BERLIN AIRLIFT