Study sets matching "us history cold war"
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Yalta conference
Bretton Woods Conference
United Nations (U.N.)
Berlin airlift
-February 1945... -final conference of the Big Three (Churchill,…
1944-Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Western Allies esablished t…
an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promot…
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of wes…
Yalta conference
-February 1945... -final conference of the Big Three (Churchill,…
Bretton Woods Conference
1944-Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, Western Allies esablished t…
Why was the period called the Cold War?
Why were the US and the USSR the only t…
What had the highest concentration of c…
Iron curtain
Because there was no blood shed
Because everyone was weakened by world war 2
Eastern Europe
Term used by Winston churchill to describe the division betwee…
Why was the period called the Cold War?
Because there was no blood shed
Why were the US and the USSR the only t…
Because everyone was weakened by world war 2
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Nikita Kruschev
Berlin Airlift
American plan to resist Communism, especially in Greece and Tu…
American aid program that spent $13 to ensure European rebuild…
Soviet premier during Cuban Missile Crisis
Largest humanitarian aid effort in history, dropped 13,000 ton…
Truman Doctrine
American plan to resist Communism, especially in Greece and Tu…
Marshall Plan
American aid program that spent $13 to ensure European rebuild…
East and West Germany
East and West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
United Nations
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
Eventually (in 1961), The Soviet Union built a wall that divid…
the international peace-keeping organization formed after Worl…
East and West Germany
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East and West Berlin
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
United Nations (UN)
containment
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
World Peacekeeping body established in 1945 after WWII
US policy proposed by George Kennan to prevent any extension o…
a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in w…
the policy of the United States to support free peoples/ natio…
United Nations (UN)
World Peacekeeping body established in 1945 after WWII
containment
US policy proposed by George Kennan to prevent any extension o…
The Cold War
Containment
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
refers to the period following WWII until the collapse of the…
A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the…
An international organization formed after WWII to promote int…
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and mili…
The Cold War
refers to the period following WWII until the collapse of the…
Containment
A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the…
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
In a speech by Winston Churchill, it symbolized the separation…
US would aid nations struggling against communist movements (e…
George F. Kennan's policy to keep communism within its borders…
Goal: to promote the economic recovery in Europe after WWII
Iron Curtain
In a speech by Winston Churchill, it symbolized the separation…
Truman Doctrine
US would aid nations struggling against communist movements (e…
Liberate
Satellite Nation
Iron Curtain
Reparations
To free from control of a country or person
Communist countries of Eastern Europe controlled by the Soviet…
A political and military barrier that isolated the USSR and it…
Payment given by the losing country to the winning country for…
Liberate
To free from control of a country or person
Satellite Nation
Communist countries of Eastern Europe controlled by the Soviet…
Berlin Airlift
Containment
Cold War
Iron Curtain
U.S. plan to fly supplies into West Berlin, to keep the Soviet…
Stopping the spread of Communism.
Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for…
An imaginary line through Europe that separates democracies fr…
Berlin Airlift
U.S. plan to fly supplies into West Berlin, to keep the Soviet…
Containment
Stopping the spread of Communism.
East and West Germany
East and West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
United Nations
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
Eventually (in 1961), The Soviet Union built a wall that divid…
the international peace-keeping organization formed after Worl…
East and West Germany
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East and West Berlin
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
Iron Curtain
Containment
Marshal Plan
Truman Doctrine
A term used by Churchill to describe the Communist Eastern sid…
Blocking another nations influence - Done by US to the Communi…
Plan by Sec. of State George Marshall to use financial aid to…
To provide economic and military aid to free countries threate…
Iron Curtain
A term used by Churchill to describe the Communist Eastern sid…
Containment
Blocking another nations influence - Done by US to the Communi…
Cold War
Yalta Conference
results of WWII?
superpowers
ideological, political, military, and cultural conflict betwee…
Discuss postwar plan... Stalin agrees to representative governmen…
Europe in economic ruin... World powers exhausted ... US saw near ze…
United States and Soviet Union
Cold War
ideological, political, military, and cultural conflict betwee…
Yalta Conference
Discuss postwar plan... Stalin agrees to representative governmen…
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Iron Curtain
Containment
leaders split up Germany, argued over Europe
set up to solve world problems peacfully
symbolic split between communist and non-communist countries i…
US policy of stopping the spread of communism
Yalta Conference
leaders split up Germany, argued over Europe
United Nations
set up to solve world problems peacfully
East and West Germany
East and West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
United Nations
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
Eventually (in 1961), The Soviet Union built a wall that divid…
the international peace-keeping organization formed after Worl…
East and West Germany
After WWII, East Germany, overseen by the Soviet Union modeled…
East and West Berlin
East Berlin was overseen by the Soviet Union while West Berlin…
"Big Three"
Teheran Conference
Containment
Marshall Plan
allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Ch…
December, 1943 - A meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin i…
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism ar…
Introduced by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in 1947, h…
"Big Three"
allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Ch…
Teheran Conference
December, 1943 - A meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin i…
What happened to Germany after WWII?
Nickname for Korean war
June 1950: North Korea sweeps into Sout…
The Rosenbergs... -What did they do?... -What…
it split into 4 quadrants: US, Great Britain, France, and USSR…
"forgotten war" because nothing changed after
UN sponsors "police action" to stop invasion... -led by General M…
-Ethel and Julius were married and scientists at Los Alamos... -R…
What happened to Germany after WWII?
it split into 4 quadrants: US, Great Britain, France, and USSR…
Nickname for Korean war
"forgotten war" because nothing changed after
United Nations (UN)
satellite nation
containment
iron curtain
an international peacekeeping organization to which most natio…
a country that is dominated politically and economically by an…
the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influe…
a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imag…
United Nations (UN)
an international peacekeeping organization to which most natio…
satellite nation
a country that is dominated politically and economically by an…
Third World
capitalism
communism
Cold War
The group of developing countries in the world not linked with…
An economic system based on private property and free enterpri…
political and economic system in which government owns all pro…
An intense hostile rivalry during the second half of the 20th…
Third World
The group of developing countries in the world not linked with…
capitalism
An economic system based on private property and free enterpri…
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
buffer zone
Baruch Plan
1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin…
meeting at which Truman demanded free elections throughout Eas…
Stalin's goal for Eastern Europe at the Yalta and Potsdam Conf…
Plan to create a U.N. committee to regulate nuclear weapons an…
Yalta Conference
1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin…
Potsdam Conference
meeting at which Truman demanded free elections throughout Eas…
Satellite State
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation
Worldwide rivalry between the US and the USSR
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border betwee…
President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against…
Satellite State
Independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation
Cold War
Worldwide rivalry between the US and the USSR
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Cold War
Satellite states
Official American foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman as a…
Nickname for ideology formulated in President Truman's speech…
Postwar conflict between the USA & USSR. Immediately after WWI…
During the wartime conferences, Stalin had promised to allow "…
Containment
Official American foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman as a…
Truman Doctrine
Nickname for ideology formulated in President Truman's speech…
Capitalism
Communism
Containment
Satellite Nations
An economic system in which private individuals and corporatio…
An economic and political system based on one-party government…
The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influ…
A country that is dominated politically and economically by an…
Capitalism
An economic system in which private individuals and corporatio…
Communism
An economic and political system based on one-party government…
Cold War
communism
capitalism
satellite nations
era if confrontation and completion between the US and Soviet…
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, all property is pub…
economic systems and an ideology based on private ownership of…
nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence a…
Cold War
era if confrontation and completion between the US and Soviet…
communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, all property is pub…