Yalta Conference
These were the three primary leaders (the "Big Three") who met at Yalta in 1945.
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
What type of alliance was the Warsaw Pact?
Military alliance
What does the acronym NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What was the main goal of the policy of containment?
To prevent the spread of communism.
This term describes the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet-led bloc and the U.S.-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
Cold War
The leaders at Yalta agreed that after the war, Germany would be divided into this many zones.
4
This superpower led the alliance known as the Warsaw Pact.
Soviet Union
This was the primary reason democratic nations formed the NATO alliance.
Collective defense of member states.
What was a key strategy used in the containment policy?
Providing economic and military aid.
An economic system where the government owns the means of production and there is little to no private property.
Communism
This action by the Soviet Union shortly after the war was considered a "broken promise" from the Yalta Conference.
setting up communist governments in Eastern European countries
The Warsaw Pact was created in direct response to the formation and expansion of this group.
NATO
Which major nation was a key founder of NATO?
United States.
What was the underlying ideology that containment aimed to counter?
Soviet communism.
The belief that if one country in a region fell to communism, the surrounding countries would also fall, much like a row of falling objects.
Domino Theory
At Yalta, the leaders agreed that all countries freed from Nazi control should be allowed to have these.
democratic elections
In what year was the Warsaw Pact officially established?
1955
In 1955, this part of a formerly divided nation joined NATO, significantly increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
This massive U.S. aid package provided billions of dollars to rebuild European cities and factories after WWII.
Marshall Plan
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the "imagined boundary" separating Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe from the democratic nations of Western Europe.
Iron Curtain
This peninsula is part of Russia if you ask Russia and part of Ukraine if you asked the international community.
Crimea
What significant event led to the eventual dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?
Collapse of the Soviet Union/Eastern Bloc
Name 4 of the original 12 NATO Members.
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK, US
This country received significant Marshall Plan aid to provide flour for bread to children waiting in line.
Greece
This policy involves building up a large military or nuclear arsenal to prevent an enemy from attacking.
Deterrence