People
Organizations
Key Documents
Key Terms
Events
100
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940-1945
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
Intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense that primarily collects and analyzes data of foreign affairs.
What is National Security Agency (NSA)?
100
Resulted in the Big Three agreeing to a division of Europe, demilitarization and denazification of Germany following an unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union would enter a war against Japan within three months of the defeat of Germany, etc.
What is the Yalta Agreement/Conference?
100
Early destructive weapon of mass destruction with limited accuracy, but destructive enough to demolish a large target such as a city.
What is ICBM/Intercontinental ballistic missile?
100
Soviet withdraw of Allied Control Council, resulting in a refusal to allow any American, British or French access into Berlin (Mar. 20, 1948)
What is the Berlin Blockade?
200
First Lady from 1933 to 1945 known for her outspokenness.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Divided into three zones of occupation controlled by Britain, the United States and France.
What is Federal Republic of German/West Germany?
200
Document stating the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid in order to prevent Soviet control of their states (March 12, 1947)
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Divide and conquer process of threats and alliances in order to control. Example: the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.
What are Salami tactics?
200
The United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union's discussion of reunifying Germany, a disarmament, and increased economic ties meaning an improvement of relations between East and West Germany
What is the Geneva Summit (1955)?
300
Secretary of State from 1947 to 1949 and developer of a post-WWII economic plan,
Who is George Marshall?
300
A satellite state of the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1991.
What is German Democratic Republic/East Germany?
300
Truman's secretary of state (Feb. 27, 1947) proposed economic aid plan to Greece and Turkey, but later expanded to numerous European nations. Communist nations rejected this plan.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
A region or territory where political and/or economic influence is dominated by one nation. Example: Baltic States, Eastern Bloc, etc.
What is a sphere[s] of influence?
300
As the US and Soviet tensions quickly escalated Harry S. Truman announced he would run for president in an upcoming election;the election ended with the victory of Dwight E. Eisenhower, the first republican president since 1928.
What is the Election of 1952?
400
Soviet who negotiated mutual-aid treaties with the British and the U.S. Attended Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945) , and Potsdam (1945).
Who is Vyacheslav Molotov?
400
An economic system of the Soviet Union used in the Eastern Bloc and other soviet socialist states from 1949 to 1991.
What is Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)?
400
Title of a telegram sent from Moscow to Washington D.C. from American diplomat George F. Kennan (Feb. 22, 1946) essentially first establishing the need of a policy of containment.
What is the Mr. X article/The Sources of Soviet Conduct?
400
A country that is technically independent and has its own government, but is under "heavy political and economic influence".
What is a satellite nation?
400
A major bombing campaign of the United States against an East Asian island nation (August 6 to August 9, 1945).
What are [the atomic bombings of] Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
Agreement between Stalin and Churchill about how to divide southeastern Europe into "spheres of influence" during the Fourth Moscow Conference (~1944)
What is the Percentages Agreement?
500
Senator Joe McCarthy's hunt to expose communists in the late 1940s and mid 1950s.
What is the Second Red Scare/McCarthyism?
500
Soviet Union announced a believed-to-be American intelligence plane was shot down in Soviet territory, following the incident, NASA released "story" stating a weather plane had gone missing. One week later, Eisenhower admitted to an authorization of American flights over Soviet territory. (May 3-7, 1960)
What is the U-2 incident?
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