Beginnings
Soviet armies pushed back Germans here and set up Communist governments after WWII.
What is Eastern Europe?
The “Big Three” Allied leaders at Yalta: Roosevelt, Churchill, and this person.
Who is Stalin?
March 12, 1947, speech by Truman outlining aid to fight communism worldwide.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
By the end of 1949, this democratic state allied with the U.S. emerged from western zones.
What is West Germany?
U.S. president who refused Khrushchev’s 1961 demand to leave Berlin.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
American armies pushed back Germans here and set up capitalist democratic governments after WWII.
What is Western Europe?
Agreement at Yalta and Potsdam to divide Germany (and Berlin) into this many zones until the Allies agreed to one Germany (did not happen).
What are four zones?
Civil war site where Communist rebels tried to overthrow the government; received Truman Doctrine aid.
What is Greece?
1949 alliance of the U.S., Canada, and 10 West European countries to stop communism from spreading.
What is NATO?
1962 crisis: Soviets placed long-range missiles here, 90 miles south of Florida.
What is Cuba?
This U.S.-Soviet rivalry lasted from 1945 to 1990.
What is the Cold War?
Stalin demanded that Germans pay high these for damages to the Soviet Union.
What are reparations?
Country where the Soviet Union wanted naval bases, but it did not happen because of the Truman Doctrine (we put American ships where the Soviets wanted theirs).
What is Turkey?
1955 Soviet military alliance with Communist governments of Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Communist leader of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Americans wanted to promote world peace through this key factor and world trade.
What is capitalism?
1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill warned of this barrier descending across Europe.
What is an Iron Curtain?
June 1948 Soviet action cutting off road, rail, and water routes to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Soviet leader who emerged after Stalin’s 1953 death and demanded Western withdrawal from Berlin in 1961.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
October 1962 event where Kennedy blockaded Cuba, averting nuclear war after Soviets removed nuclear missiles.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviet Union wanted to impose this system on Eastern European countries to create "buffer states" between themselves and Germany.
What is communism?
New U.S. foreign policy to “contain” or hold back the spread of this ideology.
What is communism?
Truman’s response to the Berlin Blockade: nearly a year of planes delivering supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
1961 structure built by Soviets to stop East Germans fleeing to West Belin; symbolized Cold War division.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended with a deal. The Soviets were to remove their forces form Cuba. In return, the United States pledged never to invade this country once they left.
What is Cuba?