The Marshall Plan
The countries that received western economic assistance from the Marshall Plan joined this post-WWII alliance.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This war occurred between the world’s two “superpowers” and lasted over four decades.
What is the Cold War?
This policy stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This began in mid-1948 after the USSR cut off all ground supply routes into West Berlin in an attempt to get the US, France, and Great Britain to leave the city completely.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the US, Britain, and the USSR, held at Potsdam, outside Berlin, in July, 1945.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This nation received the most amount of money from the Marshall Plan.
What is Great Britain?
This term was used by Winston Churchill representing the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This European nation was on the losing side of WW II. Formerly led by the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, they were in danger of a communist takeover with help from the US.
What is Italy?
The Berlin Airlift supplied more food and materials by air than this mode of transportation did before the blockade of West Berlin by the USSR in 1948 and 1949.
What are railroads?
This first atomic weapon ever used against an enemy was here on August 6, 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
This nation received the least amount of money from the Marshall Plan.
What was Iceland?
This international organization was founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This Western European country was split in two at the end of WW II and was in danger of complete communist takeover without US assistance.
What is West Germany?
According to the video, “History Brief: The Berlin Airlift,” the airlift lasted for this amount of time.
What is 15 months?
The last military action of WW II occurred in this city on August 9, 1945.
What is Nagasaki?
The only country in Western Europe not to receive help from the Marshall Plan.
What is Spain?
In 1949, the alliance created between the USSR and other Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The two Southern European countries protected by the Truman Doctrine.
What are Greece and Turkey?
At the height of the Berlin Airlift, supply planes landed in this increment of time.
What is every minute and a half?
One part of this was the ultimatum issued by the US, the United Kingdom, and China to Japan offering that country the choice between unconditional surrender and total annihilation
What is the Potsdam Declaration?
These were the two main goals/reasons of the Marshall Plan.
What was to rebuild the economies of Western Europe and contain communism (the policy of containment)?
At the onset of the Cold War, this man believed that a blockade of West Berlin would force the Allies to abandon the city, leaving it open to communist control.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.
What is containment?
Gail Halvorsen and his plane, were known by the children of West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift for dropping chocolate bars using mini parachutes by these nicknames.
Who are "Uncle Wiggle Wings" and his "Candy Bomber"
In July 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.
What is the Potsdam Conference?