Chapter 18 vocabulary
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. UNITED NATIONS
A. An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
2. STALIN
B. Elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term
3. SATELLITE
C. An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship
4. CONTAINMENT
D. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic
5. POWERS
E. Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany
6. IRON CURTAIN
F. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state
7. HYDROGEN
G. Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star
8. COLD WAR
H. Strength or the ability to control things (plural)
9. BERLIN
I. A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power
10. TRUMAN
J. A state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by