Cold War Vocabulary

lasting for a limited time: not permanent

Building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy.

A plan to keep something such as communism within its existing geographical boundaries

A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.

Idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall

To free

A war in which the powers on conflict use third parties as substitutes

A document or primary reference book that gives information

A weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction,

the idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall

Lasting for limited time; not permanent

An atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor favored by Mao Zedong

The last in a series, process, or progress

In China during the 1950s, a group of collective farms with over 30,000 people

To come into being through evolution

Policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war.