Cold War Vocabulary

A conflict in Asia that neither side won.

The idea that if the U.S. stops new countries from being communist then communism will go away.

Archbishop Romero was assassinated in this country when he tried to stop U.S. military support.

The Soviet Union tried to keep this country communist but failed.

A conflict in Southeast Asia where the U.S. tried to stop a country from becoming communist.

The imaginary line that divided Communist Eastern Europe from Democratic Western Europe.

The idea that if one country became communist, the country next to it would also.

The idea that the market controls the economy. Uses money for goods and services.

A plan to rebuild Western Europe after WWII to support democracy and U.S. alliances.

A time in the 1970s when relations between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. improved.

Crisis that almost started a nuclear war.

A competition between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to send satellites and people into space.

Divided city in Germany.

A belief that the economy and government should be run by a central organization and not by money.

The U.S. funded troops in this country to fight the government in Nicaragua.

The competition between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to gain the advantage in nuclear weapons.