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Unit 5 | The Cold War Study Guide Directions: Summarize each of the following Cold War Concepts. Capitalism Communism: NATO: Warsaw Pact: Domino Theory: Containment: Truman Doctrine: Arms Race: Space Race: McCarthyism: Red Scare: economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society. The essential feature of capitalism is the motive to make a profit. political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit- based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman's foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism prevent the expansion of communism. occurs when two or more countries increase the size and quality of military resources to gain military and political superiority over one another President Kennedy's declaration focused the Space Race on a clear goal: landing a man on the Moon before the Soviets a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States which began during the start of the Cold War The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920.

Directions: Match each key event with the correct description. Yalta Conference Sputnik Vietnam War Berlin Airlift Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War Planes ﬂew in food, fuel, and other supplies to 2 million Berliners during the Berlin Blockade which cut oǣ West Berlin from the rest of the world. Proxy war that was fought in the 1950s. October 1962, the US and the USSR came close to nuclear war when President Kennedy insisted that Nikita Khrushchev remove the 42 missiles he had secretly deployed to an area near the United States. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British PM Winston Churchill, and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for a post-war world. First satellite launched into orbit, shocked the world, and had many Americans fearful that the US was losing the Cold War. Proxy war that ended for the United States in 1973. Was the first war to get massive pushback from the public at home as protests broke out across the nation. Some protests, like the ones at Kent and Jackson State, turned deadly. Berlin airlift Korean War Cuban Missile crisis Yalta conference Sputnik Vietnam war

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