Cold War Conferences
This 1945 conference involved Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin discussing plans for postwar Europe before Germany was defeated.
the Yalta Conference
Churchill gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in this U.S. state.
Missouri
This U.S.-British operation flew supplies into West Berlin for almost a year.
the Berlin Airlift
This country ended the U.S.'s monopoly on nuclear weapons in 1949.
the Soviet Union
This Asian war was the first armed conflict of the Cold War era.
the Korean War
At this 1945 meeting, Truman clashed with Stalin over the fate of Eastern Europe and reparations from Germany.
the Potsdam Conference
The “Iron Curtain” speech is often considered the symbolic beginning of this conflict.
The Cold War
The Berlin Blockade ended in this year.
1949
This was the more powerful nuclear bomb tested by the U.S. in 1952.
Hydrogen Bomb
This Latin American country hosted Soviet missiles in 1962.
Cuba
One result of the Yalta Conference was this pledge by Stalin about Poland's government.
To form a government of national unity and allow free elections
Between 1945 and 1947, Stalin broke promises and allowed communists to seize power in these regions.
Eastern European countries
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop this.
the mass emigration of East Germans to the West
The strategy where both sides avoid war because both could destroy the other is called this.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The U.S. supported anti-communist forces in this Southeast Asian country during the Cold War.
Vietnam
At Potsdam, leaders feared high reparations from Germany could cause a repeat of this historical consequence.
the economic collapse that helped cause WWII
This metaphor was used to describe the division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West.
the Iron Curtain
This number of people were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
191
The Warsaw Pact was signed in this coutry.
Poland
This African country was a Cold War battleground where both the U.S. and USSR supported different factions.
the Congo
Despite agreements at Yalta and Potsdam, Stalin began arresting these political figures in Poland.
non-communist leaders
This term describes countries like Poland and Hungary that were under Soviet control but officially independent.
satellite states
This Cold War event divided a city already surrounded by communist East Germany.
the construction of the Berlin Wall
The original members of NATO included the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and this many other countries.
8
This term describes wars where major powers support opposing sides but don’t directly fight.
proxy wars