treaty/pact - A formal agreement between two or more countries dealing with peace, alliance, commerce (business), or other international relations, proportionality - The idea that a response to an attack should not be more severe than necessary, arms race - A competition between nations for superiority in the development and collection of weapons, Domino Theory - The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow one after the other, similar to dominoes, nationalism - The belief that one’s nation, along with its culture and interests, are superior to and above all others and should be strongly promoted, Collective Security - This policy states that when a nation attacks any other nation, its allies will come to its aid. In simple terms, an attack of one ally is an attack on all allies, proxy war - Occurs when a major power instigates or plays a major role in supporting or directing another party in a conflict but does not participate in the fighting itself, NATO - A military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between democratic countries against the threat of the Soviet Union and the spread of communism., Warsaw Pact - A military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe. Organized in 1955, this was a response to the formation of NATO, appeasement - Making compromises to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict, containment - A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism around the world., iron curtain - The name for the boundary dividing Communist Eastern Europe from a Democratic Western Europe from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. The term refers to the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and the countries it controlled from open contact with the West and its allied states., “The Red Scare” - The widespread fear in the United States that communism was overtaking the country., coup - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government, guerilla warfare - The use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of nonprofessional military forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, professional military force,

Cold War Vocabulary

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