Iron Curtain
This 1947 plan, named after a U.S. Secretary of State, aimed to rebuild European economies and combat communism's allure.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Soviet Union achieved this status in 1949, altering the balance of power in the Cold War.
What is nuclear parity?
This was the imaginary line that divided Korea in 1945, setting the stage for a major Cold War conflict.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This 1948-1949 crisis was sparked by the Soviet Union's attempt to force Western allies out of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This school of thought, popular in the 1950s, largely blamed the Soviet Union for the Cold War's onset.
What is the Orthodox view?
This was a Soviet-led economic initiative was designed for Eastern Bloc countries.
What is the Molotov Plan?
This 1950 U.S. initiative offered a substantial monetary reward for the first MiG-15 delivered intact by a defecting pilot.
What is Operation Moolah?
These South Korean uprisings in 1948-1949 were brutally suppressed by Syngman Rhee's government.
What are the Jeju Uprising and Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion?
This Allied operation, lasting from June 1948 to September 1949, supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This historian's 1959 work "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy" was a key text in revisionist Cold War historiography.
Who is William Appleman Williams?
This 1955 Eastern Bloc collective defense treaty formally created the Soviet-led counterpart to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This wartime conference in 1943 introduced the concept of "Four Policemen" to maintain global security.
What is the Cairo Conference?
This political party, established in Seoul in 1946, opposed the UN-supervised elections and sought unification with the North.
What is the Workers' Party of South Korea?
This American general, the Military Governor of Germany, initially proposed forcing a convoy into Berlin, risking World War III.
Who is Gen. Lucius Clay?
This British Marxist historian, known for his "Age of" series, contributed to revisionist interpretations of the Cold War.
Who is Eric Hobsbawm?
This 1948 agreement between Churchill and Stalin divvied up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence using simple percentages.
What is the Percentages Agreement?
This American diplomat's analysis, sent from Moscow in 1946, formed the basis of the U.S. containment policy.
Who is George Kennan?
This 1950 speech by U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, which excluded Korea from America's defense perimeter, may have emboldened North Korea to invade.
What is the Pacific Perimeter Speech?
This crucial airbase in the American sector of West Berlin was a primary destination for Allied supply planes during the airlift.
What is Tempelhof Airport?
This well-known American historian combines ideas from the traditional and revisioinist viewpoints to create a new, balanced view based on newer archival evidence.
Who is John Lewis Gaddis?
This was the organization overseeing the correct distribution of US aid to Europe after World War II.
What is the European Recovery Program (ERP)?
This term refers to the extension of military and political power from one country to many others, often over great geographic distances.
What is a hegemony?
This Soviet-backed leader of North Korea, who came to power in 1948, was instrumental in planning the invasion of South Korea.
Who is Kim Il-sung?
This economic action by Western Allies in their occupation zones, strongly opposed by the Soviets, was a key trigger for the blockade.
What is the introduction of the western Deutsche Mark?
This historiographical approach, emerging in the 1990s, sought to synthesize orthodox and revisionist views while incorporating new archival evidence.
What is post-revisionism?