Cold War Vocab

Unit IX Cold War Vocabulary

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Term for the rivalry between communist and non-communist worlds between 1945-1989; the US led the Free World, the Soviet Union led the Reds.

Cold War

Leader of Norwegian Nazis during the war; his name was synonymous with treason

Vidiun Quisling

The term for the militarized boundary between Communist and non-Communist Europe

Iron Curtain

Soviet forced labor prison camps; similar to Concentration Camps

Gulag

Charge that was laid against the Nazi leadership at end of WWII, especially crimes of Holocaust

Crimes Against Humanity

Lenin's term for Westerners, who could be manipulated to advance the Soviet cause

Useful Idiot

US policy of giving military assistance to governments threatened by communist revolution

Truman Doctrine

American policy of giving economic assistance to rebuild Europe at end of WWII. We gave it to friends and foes. It was a huge success

Marshall Plan

The Soviet response to the Marshall Plan. The problem was they had no money. It failed

Molotov Plan