Causes of Cold War
Who was the two main countries in the Cold war?
United States and Soviet Union
Who came up with the idea of containment?
What does the acronym NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What happened to East Germans who tried to scale the Berlin wall?
The border guards would shoot them.
What is the North Atlantic Treat Organization?
An alliance of the Western European countries friendly to the US.
What was the Iron curtain?
It cut off the Soviets run Eastern European.
Greece and Turkey
What does the United Nations do?
Helps bring peaceful agreements between nations and help supply nations in need.
Which part of Berlin was more successful?
West Germany
What is the Marshall plan?
an ambitious plan to help Europe rebuild.
What were the three satellite nations dominated by the soviets?
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Why was the Berlin wall built?
To keep Democracy and aid out of East Berlin run by the Soviets.
What communist advancement came in 1949?
Soviet Union had test an atomic bomb.
Why did Stalin close all roads, railway lines, and river routes connecting West Berlin to West Germany?
He did not want Germany to reunite fearing it would threaten the Soviet Union.
Truman Doctrine
What was the date of Joseph Stalins death?
March 5th 1953
What year was the Berlin wall built?
1961 by East Germany
Why did the Soviet Union make the Warsaw Pact?
To dominate and force its policies on its neighbors.
How much money did the Marshall Plan provide for Western European Countries?
What is the Warsaw pact?
Soviet Unions formed alliance forcing others to follow its policies.
What was the only Eastern European country not controlled by communism by 1948?
Yugoslavia
How was food given to those in West Berlin?
Berlin Airlift by American and British planes.
Who become the leader in China after their civil war?
Mao Zedong
What four countries controlled Germany
British, French, Soviet Union, and United States
What was the cold War?
War between USA and Soviet Union that had no actual firing of weapons. It was communism vs Democracy.