1. Cold war: a war fought using words or ideas

2. Command economy- government decides what will be produced
United States
Soviet Union
Communism- government controls production, where people should live & work
Command economy- government decides what will be produced
People have no say in government
Capitalism- people control production of goods.
Market economy- individuals make economic decisions
Democracy- vote for leaders

3. Iron Curtain

4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
U.S., Canada, most non-communist countries in Europe joined together to stop communism
Wanted to protect smaller non-communist countries from being forced to turn communist

5. Berlin Wall Berlin was in East Germany (communist).
After WWII, Allies had West Berlin. Soviets had East Berlin.
Soviets built a wall to separate two sections of Berlin.

6. Berlin Airlift
Soviets used a blockade to prevent any supplies getting into Western Blockade.
Allies used airplanes and dropped supplies to the people for a year.

7. Scare in United States Joseph McCarthy- American
Though secret communists work in United States and were spying for Soviet Union
Many government workers, teachers, writers were fired

8. Cold War Conflicts
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War

9. Cold War Conflicts Cuban Missile Crisis Korean War Vietnam War
Fear of communist advances
Korea split into 2 countries- one communist, one non-communist
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam split into 2 different countries-one communist, one non-communist
Vietnam War
Communist North Korea invades South Korea.
Communist Vietcong try to take over South Vietnam
NATO helps non-communist country

10. Cuban Missile Crisis Soviets were sending missiles to Cuba
From Cuba, Soviets could attack US

11. Korean War North Korea: communist South Korea: non-communist
North Korea invades South Korea
NATO supports South Korea
38th parallel- the majority of fighting took place around this area. Border between 2 countries continually changed around this area during fighting.

12. Vietnam War 1950s- Vietnam seperated
North Vietnam- communist
South Vietnam- non-communist
1960s- Communist people (called Vietcong) tried to take over non-communist South Vietnam
United States sent soldiers and supplies to help South Vietnam

13. Unpopular War People began to have strong feelings about war:
War supporters- did not want communism to spread
Anti-war feelings- the United States shouldn’t be involved with other countries’ problems; many US soldiers dying