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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
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