The Big Three
These three specific Allied leaders met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 to plan the postwar world.
Who were Franklin D. Roosevelt , Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin?
The United States championed this political and economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
What is Capitalism?
This was the primary foreign policy of the United States directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism.
What is Containment?
Following World War II, this major German city was completely surrounded by the Soviet occupation zone but was itself split into four allied sectors.
What is Berlin?
Formed in 1949 as a result of growing fears of Soviet aggression this military alliance linked the United States ,Canada, and ten Western European nations.
What is NATO?
At the Yalta Conference the Big Three agreed to divide Germany into these after the war ended.
What are zones of occupation?
The Soviet Union championed this political and economic system where the state controls production and wealth is distributed.
What is Communism?
This famous U.S. policy statement declared that the United States would give economic and military aid to any free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
In 1948, the Soviet Union took this aggressive action to try to force the Western allies out of West Berlin.
What is blocking all highway, water, and rail traffic into West Berlin?
Under the NATO treaty, an armed attack against any one member nation was officially considered to be this.
What is an attack against all member nations?
This is the specific political process Soviet leader Joseph Stalin promised to allow in Eastern Europe during the Yalta Conference which he later went back on.
What are free elections?
Winston Churchill coined this famous metaphorical phrase to describe the sharp division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
These two specific Mediterranean nations were the first to receive U.S. financial aid under the Truman Doctrine to prevent a communist takeover.
What are Greece and Turkey?
This was the joint American and British operation that flew food, fuel, and supplies into West Berlin to sustain its citizens during the Soviet blockade.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
In response to the formation of NATO and West Germany joining the alliance, the Soviet Union formed this rival military alliance in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Established in June 1945 by 50 nations to protect members against aggression this international organization features a General Assembly and a Security Council.
What is the United Nations?
This term refers to the Eastern European nations that Stalin installed communist governments in, which acted as a protective buffer zone for the Soviet Union.
What are satellite nations?
To help combat the spread of communism, the U.S. Congress approved this policy to send billions of dollars in economic aid to rebuild any European country that needed it.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Western allies successfully bypassed the Soviet blockade by flying supply planes into West Berlin for this many months before the Soviets finally lifted it.
What is 11 months?
This physical structure was constructed by East Germany in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin and stop citizens from fleeing to the democratic West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This newly appointed U.S. President represented America at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 replacing FDR
Who was Harry S. Truman?
This is the underlying reason the standoff between the US and the USSR was called a "Cold" war.
What is because the two superpowers never fought each other directly in military combat?
This specific aggressive event in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 finally convinced the U.S. Congress to fully fund and pass the Marshall Plan
What was a communist takeover?
The peaceful resolution of the Berlin Blockade stood as a major victory for this specific United States foreign policy.
What is Containment?
This major global alliance, created during the Cold War, still exists today as a defensive pact for North American and European democracies.
What is NATO?