Yalta and Potsdam
This 1945 Conference divided Germany and Berlin into four occupation zones
What is Yalta?
The 1946 cable by George Kennan that argued for "patient containment" is known by this informal name.
What is the Long Telegram?
Winston Churchill famously described the growing division of Europe with this two-word phrase.
What is the Iron Curtain?
After a civil war ended in 1949, this leader proclaimed the People's Republic of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This divided city (and country) became the Cold War's most visible symbol of East–West division.
What is Berlin (or Divided Germany)?
At this conference Truman, Attlee, and Stalin met after Germany's surrender; tensions rose after the first successful atomic test
What is Potsdam?
The 1947 Foreign Affairs article by "X" that promoted containment is commonly called this.
What is the "X Article"?
In 1948–49 the USSR blockaded this city, prompting a massive Western airlift.
What is Berlin?
The theory that if one country fell to communism others in the region would follow was known by this informal name.
What is the Domino Theory?
The Berlin airlift delivered millions of tons of supplies and was called Operation Vittles by this country.
What is the United States?
One Yalta agreement called for these in liberated nations, language later interpreted differently by East and West.
What are free and fair elections?
This 1947 U.S. policy pledged aid to Greece and Turkey to resist communist pressures
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The 1949 military alliance formed by Western countries as a collective defense is known by this acronym.
What is NATO?
In 1950 North Korea invaded here, prompting U.S. military intervention and later a Chinese counterintervention.
What is South Korea?
One major goal of the Marshall Plan was to stabilize currencies and revive industry, industrial production rose roughly this percent from 1948–1952.
What is 35%?
This postwar issue (about money and industry) caused sharp disagreement at Potsdam and contributed to Cold War hardening.
What are reparations / German economic policy?
The Marshall Plan sought to rebuild Europe and prevent communist electoral gains by providing this type of assistance totaling about $13 billion.
What is economic aid (grants and loans)?
In response to NATO and West German rearmament, the USSR led the formation of this 1955 alliance of Eastern states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The Korean conflict ended with this type of agreement in 1953 that left the peninsula divided near this parallel.
What is an armistice at the 38th parallel?
Yugoslavia split with Stalin in 1948 under this leader who pursued independent communism.
Who is Tito?
The change in U.S. leadership between Yalta and Potsdam put this president at Potsdam instead of Roosevelt.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Kennan argued the USSR was driven by ideology and this national feeling, which made containment necessary.
What is Russian insecurity (or fear for security)?
This policy component used economic recovery and integration as a tool of containment and helped weaken communist parties in Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
U.S. involvement in Vietnam began with aid to this colonial power trying to retain control after WWII.
What is France?
Containment avoided direct rollback and preferred a mix of diplomacy, economic aid, alliances, and this military strategy relying on nuclear deterrence and forward deployment.
What is military deterrence / alliances?