 | Term | Definition |
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Who met in Yalta? |
Roosevelt, Stalin, And Churchill |
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In Yalta, What did they discuss? |
Poland and the rest of Europe |
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In Yalta, What did they agree on? |
Non-communists to be part of emergency governments and Free Elections ASAP |
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What was the outcome of Yalta? |
USSR disallowed democracy in Poland. Great bitterness caused in the USA |
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Who met in Potsdam? |
Truman, Stalin, First Roosevelt, then Attlee |
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In Potsdam, What did they discuss? |
The Future of Germany |
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In Potsdam, What did they agree on? |
Borders between Germany and Poland, wiping out Nazi influence, Agreements for Reparations |
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What was the outcome of Potsdam? |
USA prevented USSR influence in the Ruhr area of Germany and occupied Japan. Soviet Union Blocked the USA from involvement in Eastern Europe. |
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Iron Curtain |
Divider between Commy style states and democratic capitalist states |
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What was Stalin's Excuse for this? |
Building out borders to protect itself, and that Russia felt hard war in WWII |
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Containment |
USA riches used to prevent communism from spreading. Bought Guns for the Anti-Commies, and gave money to them. |
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Truman Doctrine |
promised help to anyone who resisted communism |
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Marshall Plan |
gave aid to countries to make standards higher so people will oppose communism. |
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NATO |
military alliance of non-commy countries in Europe. agreed for defence if under attack from the soviets |
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Berlin Blockade |
blockaded east germany from american supplies. americans bypassed by air-lifting goods to the germans |
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COMECON |
answer to the marshall plan by setting up a trading block of commy countries |
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East Germany |
soviet-controlled area of Germany. was communist |
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Soviet Atom Bomb |
americans had nukes. stalin told his scientists to develop one, and in 1949 they succeded |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance in response to NATO of communist countries |
