Postwar Conferences
This 1945 meeting planned postwar Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
A conflict without direct fighting between superpowers.
What is the Cold War?
The goal of the Truman Doctrine.
What is stopping the spread of communism?
The Soviet attempt to cut off West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
NATO was created for this purpose.
What is collective defense?
The three leaders at Yalta.
Who were Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin?
Churchill’s phrase describing Europe’s division.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The key Cold War policy guiding U.S. actions.
What is containment?
The Western response to the blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Soviet response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
A major decision made at Yalta about Germany.
What was dividing Germany into four occupation zones?
The main ideological conflict of the Cold War.
What is democracy vs. communism?
This plan helped rebuild Europe’s economy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The result of the Berlin Airlift.
What is the Soviets ending the blockade?
This 1949 event heightened nuclear fears.
What is the Soviet atomic bomb test?
This organization was agreed upon at Yalta.
What is the United Nations?
Why tensions rose after Yalta.
What is Stalin refusing free elections in Eastern Europe?
Why the U.S. believed aid would stop communism.
What is poor nations being more likely to turn communist?
What triggered the Berlin Blockade.
What is Western Allies uniting their zones?
McCarthyism is best described as this.
What are accusations without evidence?
This conference occurred after Germany’s surrender.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The biggest fear driving Cold War behavior.
What is nuclear war?
Why Eastern Europe didn’t receive Marshall Plan aid.
What is Stalin blocking participation?
Why Berlin symbolized the Cold War.
What is it represented the divide between communism and democracy?
Why the Space Race mattered during the Cold War.
What is it showed technological and military power?