Three’s Company
This group of leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—worked together during WWII.
Who are the Big Three?
This term describes the post-WWII ideological rivalry between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Cold War?
This continent suffered the greatest population losses during WWII.
What is Europe?
This type of war is fought with propaganda and indirect conflict, not direct military battles.
What is a cold war?
This movement grew stronger after WWII as colonies demanded independence.
What is decolonization?
This 1943 conference set the strategy for defeating Germany from both East and West.
What is the Tehran Conference?
This U.S. program offered aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Soviet Union, Poland, and Germany each lost between this percentage of their population.
What is 10 to 20 percent?
Both the U.S. and USSR developed this more powerful nuclear weapon in the 1950s.
What is the hydrogen bomb?
The idea that a people should choose their own form of government.
What is self-determination?
At this 1945 meeting, Stalin demanded a buffer zone in Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Stalin wanted these in Eastern Europe to protect against future invasions.
What are buffer zones?
Despite losses, these two Western nations retained democratic traditions.
What are Great Britain and France?
Eisenhower warned against this powerful alliance between the government and defense contractors.
What is the military-industrial complex?
This Indian leader’s anti-imperialist sentiments symbolized the global desire for independence.
Who is Lal Bahadur Shastri?
This U.S. President replaced Roosevelt at the Potsdam Conference.
Who is Harry Truman?
The U.S. and USSR emerged as superpowers because Europe had suffered this.
What is massive destruction and loss of power?
This infrastructure remained intact and grew in the U.S. during WWII.
What is the industrial base?
These types of conflicts were fueled by the U.S.–Soviet rivalry in other countries.
What are proxy wars or civil wars?
WWII weakened these European colonial powers, making it harder to hold onto empires.
Who are Britain and France?
Stalin refused free elections in Eastern Europe during this final WWII conference.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This powerful weapon tested by the U.S. and later the USSR changed the nature of military power.
What is the atomic bomb?
This wartime medical advancement saved thousands of lives and benefited civilians post-war.
What is penicillin?
The arms race and this race into space defined Cold War technological competition.
What is the Space Race?
This global ideological conflict between capitalism and communism influenced decolonization efforts.
What is the Cold War?