Cold War Facts

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An economic system in which individuals own private property and are motivated by competition and profit	capitalism
An economic system in which the people as a whole theoretically own all natural resources, land, and methods of production	communism
The first leader of the USSR	Lenin
General Secretary of the Communist Party 1922-1952	Stalin
A policy in which each side pushes the other to the brink of war	brinkmanship
A military alliance between non-communist North American and European nations	NATO
A mutual defense treaty between eight communist European states	Warsaw Pact
An ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc and Western Europe	Iron Curtain
The barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to prevent emigration	Berlin Wall
A doctrine asserting the Soviets’ right to intervene in any Eastern Bloc country where communism might be threatened	Brezhnev Doctrine
The "line" dividing North and South Korea	38th parallel
This full name of this communist state was abbreviated to “USSR”	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The term for a war that is only fought by “client” states	proxy
Gorbachev’s policy of government openness and transparency	glasnost
Gorbachev’s policy of "restructuring" the Soviet political and economic system	perestroika
The year the USSR was dissolved	1991