Origins of Tension
Economic plan to rebuild Western Europe after WWII:
Marshall Plan
Soviet response to the Marshall Plan:
Rejection and creation of Comecon
1948 Soviet attempt to block Western access to Berlin:
Berlin Blockade
1945 meeting where Allied leaders discussed postwar Europe:
Yalta Conference
Economic system used in East Germany:
Command Economy
Western response to the Berlin Blockade?
Berlin Airlift
Ideological division between the U.S. and USSR:
Capitalism vs. Communism
Main reason millions fled East Germany before 1961:
Economic hardship and lack of freedom
Organization West Germany later joined that alarmed the USSR:
NATO
Main disagreement between the U.S. and USSR at Yalta:
Free elections in Eastern Europe
City that was divided among four Allied powers:
Berlin
Official name of West Germany formed in 1949:
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
Conference where Germany was officially divided into zones:
Potsdam Conference
Communist state created in eastern Germany in 1949:
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Structure built in 1961 to stop East Germans from leaving
Berlin Wall