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Vocabulary
Crisis in Berlin
United States
Soviet Expansion in Europe
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What was the Cold War?
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted each other on the battlefield.
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What part of Europe did the United States, Britain, and France divide up?
The Western part of Europe.
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Why were the United States and Russia in the Cold War?
They both wanted to be superpowers of World War 2.
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Which alliance did not last?
The Western Nations and the Soviet Union.
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What caused the Cold War to start?
The political differences between the United States, and the Soviet Union.
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What is containment?
When people took measures to stop the spread of communism.
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Which four countries occupied Germany?
U.S.S.R., United States, France, and Britain.
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Who was the president in the Cold War?
Harry S. Truman.
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What is the promise that Stalin did not keep?
To hold free elections in Europe.
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When was the Federal Civil Defense Administartion established?
January 12, 1951.
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What is Blockade?
The isolation of a place by troops or ships
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Which leaders at Yalta divided Germany into four occupation zones?
Allied leaders.
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Why did President Truman have to pay close attention to the world?
A war just ended and a mini war was starting so he had to take over as president.
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What caused the distrust between the Western Nations and Soviet Union?
The developements in Eastern Europe
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What did the United States refuse to take back?
When Egypt took control of Suez Canal.
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What were the German and Berlin zones?
When the American, British, French and Soviets each occupied an area of Germany
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What did President Truman think was essential to the future of Europe?
A reunited Germany would try to help Europe.
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What date did Theodore Roosevelt die?
April 12, 1945
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What is the name of the two groups that Europe split into?
Soviet-conrolled Communist government of the east, and the Capitalists Democracies
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When did the Soviet Union reveal that a United States spy plane was shot down?
May 1960.
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What is the "Iron Curtain"?
A statement made by Winston Churchill describing the division of Europe between Communism and Democracy
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What would pose a threat to the Soviet Union?
A reunited Germany.
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What was the date of the day that the UNited States dropped there first bomb?
August 6, 1945.
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Explain the "Iron Curtain".
A statement made by Winston Churchill describing the division of Europe between Communism and Democracy.
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When did the Cold War end?
August, 1991.