Beginnings
Soviet armies pushed back Germans here and set up Communist governments after WWII.
What is Eastern Europe?
The “Big Three” Allied leaders at Yalta to decide the post-World War Two order: Roosevelt, Churchill, and this person.
Who is Stalin?
March 12, 1947, speech by Truman outlining aid to fight communism worldwide.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
By the end of 1949, this democratic state allied with the U.S. emerged from western zones.
What is West Germany?
What article in the NATO charter means war?
Article 5.
American armies pushed back Germans here and set up capitalist democratic governments after WWII.
What is Western Europe?
Agreement at Yalta and Potsdam to divide Germany (and Berlin) into this many zones until the Allies agreed to one Germany (did not happen).
What are four zones?
Civil war in this country where Communist rebels tried to overthrow the government; received Truman Doctrine aid - and they did not go communist.
What is Greece?
1949 alliance of the U.S., Canada, and 10 West European countries to stop communism from spreading.
What is NATO?
This many NATO members have to agree to let a new country join NATO?.
What are all of them / unanimous?
This U.S.-Soviet rivalry lasted from 1945 to 1990.
What is the Cold War?
United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union.
Country where the Soviet Union wanted naval bases, but it did not happen because of the Truman Doctrine (we put American ships where the Soviets wanted theirs).
What is Turkey?
1955 Soviet military alliance with Communist governments of Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
How long must you be in NATO when you first join?
What is 20 years.
Americans wanted to promote world peace through their economic system called what?
What is capitalism?
1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill warned of this barrier descending across Europe.
What is an Iron Curtain?
June 1948 Soviet action cutting off road, rail, and water routes to West Berlin after the U.S. / U.K. / and France was creating West Germany. Stalin wanted either West Germany to not be created, or the three would pull their troops out of Berlin. Stalin did not get his way. West Germany was created with West Berlin being part of it. What was this Soviet action called?
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Name 4 out of 9 countries that currently have nuclear weapons.
What is the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea?
How much notification must a NATO member give before it leaves the alliance?
What is 1 year.
The Soviet Union wanted to impose this system on Eastern European countries to create "buffer states" between themselves and Germany.
What is communism?
U.S. foreign policy to hold back the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Truman’s response to the Berlin Blockade: nearly a year of planes delivering supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Who is the only country to use nuclear weapons during wartime?
What is the United States?
Article V of the NATO charter has only been invoked once for this event.
What is September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.