Key Figures
This British Prime Minister coined the term "Iron Curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The site of a 1943 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
Teheran capital of Iran
The United States was the first country to develop and use this type of weapon during WWII.
What is an atomic bomb?
This organisation was founded in 1945 to promote international cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This 1949 military alliance included the U.S. and its Western allies.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)?
He was the President of the United States during the initial years of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This conference in 1945 succeeded Yalta and also focused on post-war Europe and the future of Germany.
What is Potsdam?
This event in 1949 marked the Soviet Union's entry into the nuclear club.
What is the first successful Soviet atomic bomb test?
what was the Baruch Plan?
aimed to establish international control of atomic energy, including the elimination of atomic weapons, under a system of strict inspection and enforcement, and a monopoly on nuclear materials by an international authority.
The event where the U.S. and the USSR came close to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War who succeeded Lenin.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
What was discuss at the Quebec Conference?
Strategic matters such as Palestine, Poland and Chine as well as secret discussions on british canadian and american cooperation over the atomic bomb.
how did Truman justify the use of the atomic bomb?
There were no moral qualms about the bombs use and truman said "having found the bomb we used it".
Why did the Soviet Union ultimately reject the Baruch Plan?
The Soviets opposed the plan due to U.S. atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, which undermined negotiations, and they likely saw the plan as a way to preserve U.S. nuclear superiority while limiting their own development.
The conflict that saw the U.S. support South Vietnam against the communist North.
What is the Vietnam War?
This British Prime Minister succeeded Churchill and led the Labour government post-WWII.
Who is Clement Attlee?
This 1945 conference was crucial for the discussions on what to do with Eastern Europe.
What is Yalta?
outline the feelings and responses from Stalin regarding the use of the bomb.
said it was an act of "super-barbarity", he felt the US has used it to limit soviet territorial gains and deny them any say in occupation of Japan.
The term for the period of heightened tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from the late 1940s to the 1990s.
What is the Cold War?
He was the U.S. President who ordered the use of atomic bombs in World War II.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
In 1945, this conference between Roosevelt and Churchill took place at Roosevelts private estate in New York State?
What is the Hyde Park Conference?
What was Task Number One?
Soviets develop their own atomic bomb ASAP as he believed "A-bomb" blackmail was American Policy.
This wall was erected in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?