Cold War 1
Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war.
What is the Yalta Conference.
Where did the US drop its first atomic bomb?
What is Hiroshima.
Where did the US drop its second atomic bomb?
What is Nagasaki.
He was the communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh.
He led the US friendly south Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem.
It includes President Truman's promise to help any country facing a Communist takeover.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
The French, USA, and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form ___?
What is the formation of West Germany.
It was a war that began when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War.
He was the successor of Joseph Stalin.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev.
Topics at this meeting discussed included: Partitioning of Germany, Fate of Poland, The United Nations, and German reparations.
What is the Yalta Conference.
It was the Soviet Union's response to the merger of the French, USA, and UK partitions of Berlin in which they cut all road and rail links to that sector.
What is the Berlin Blockade.
The US and UK's efforts to bring food and supplies into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift.
It was created in response to NATO and was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe that included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union
What is the Warsaw Pact.
It began on October 24, 1956 as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. Hungary fell to the Soviets on November 10, 1956.
What is the Hungarian Revolution.
Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalized by the Egyptian leader Nasser.
What is the Suez Crisis.
It was a program of economic aid offered by the US to any European country. It rejected by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country. Consequently, the aid was only given to Western European Countries.
What is the Marshall Plan.
It was set up by the USSR and was the Information Bureau of the Communist and Worker's Parties responsible for the creation of the Eastern Bloc.
What is Cominform.
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states.
What is the Geneva Accords.
The attack was heavily criticized by World leaders, especially America because the Soviets had offered support to Egypt. The British and French were forced to withdraw and a UN peace keeping force was sent to establish order.
What is the Suez Crisis.
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
At this conference Germany and Austria were divided into four zones. It was also agreed that the German capital, Berlin, would be divided into four zones. The Russian Polish border was determined and Korea was to be divided into Soviet and American zones.
What is the Potsdam Conference.
It was created in 1949 by the US, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. It was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Soviets agreed to remove the weapons, and the US agreed not to invade Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace.
What is the Paris East/West talks or U2 summit.
It was an agreement made between the Soviet Union, USA, Britain and France that reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities to those countries with regard to Berlin.
What is the Four Power Agreement.