History Cold War Key Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Stalin | extremely communist Dictator of the Soviet Union who led the SU through World War II and created a powerful Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe after the war...called war inevitable ad threatened the United States throughout the Cold War |
| Roosevelt | President of the US who met at Tehran and agreed to a plan with Britain and the Soviet Union to end World War II and destroy Hitler's empire |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain who helped lead forces against the Nazi empire and eventually defeat them |
| "Big Three" | Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin |
| Tehran Conference | December 1943-the Big Three met to decide how to end World War II and attack Germany |
| Yalta Conference | December 1945- FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. USSR agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War |
| "Declaration on Liberated Europe" | a pledge from the Big Three to assist liberated European nations in the creation of "democratic institutions of their own choice." |
| United Nations | major American concern at Yalta conference |
| Potsdam Conference | July 1945 Truman Churchill and Stalin tensions between US and USSR over free elections in Europe |
| Harry Truman | Succeeded Roosevelt after his death in 1945 |
| "Iron Curtain" | speech given by Churchill in March 1945 declared that an "iron curtain" had "descended across the continent" dividing Germany and Europe into two hostile camps |
| Josip Broz (Tito) | leader of the Communist resistance movement. Refused to capitulate to Stalin's demands to wanted to control Yugoslavia and gained the support of the people by portraying the struggle as one of Yugoslav national freedom. |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947-said that the US would provide money to countries that claimed they were threatened by the communist expansion |
| Marshall Plan | June 1947-capitalist imperialism, a thinly veiled attempt to buy the support of the smaller European countries "in return for the relinquishing...of their economic and later also their political independence" (Soviets couldn't really compete) |
| George Kennan | a well-known US diplomat with much knowledge of Soviet affairs who advocated the policy of Containment |
| Containment | a policy adopted by the US in the Cold War. Its goal was to use whatever means short of all-out war, to limit Soviet expansion...close them in |
| Berlin Aircraft | operation that moved supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948-1949 |
| Denazification | after WWII the Allie policy of rooting out any traces of Nazism in German society by bringing prominent Nazis to trial for war crimes and purging any known Nazis from political office |
| Partition of Germany (Berlin) | Germany is split up at the Yalta Conference into four parts, West Berlin/Germany is controlled by France and America and East Berlin/Germany is controlled by Russia |
| German Communist Party | 1946-reestablished under the control of Walter Ulbricht and was soon in charge of the political reconstruction of the Soviet zone in eastern Germany |
| Federal Republic of Germany | formally created from the three Western zones in Sept 1949 a month later the separate German Democratic Republic was established in East Germany |
| German Democratic Republic | Oct 1949-established in East Germany |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Association (West Europe) formed in April 1949 when Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal signed the treaty with the US and Canada agreeing to provide mutual assistance if anyone of them was attacked (West Germany, Greece, and Turkey join few years later) |
| COMECON | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance for economic cooperation (Eastern Europe) to follow NATO formation |
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