Treaty the Bolsheviks signed with Germany that made WWI and one-front war. Gave Germany huge chunks of the old Russian Empire.
What is Brest-Litovsk?
100
3 of the D's for Germany
What is denazification, demilitarization, democratization, deindustrialization, disarmament, or decentralization
100
Promised aid to Turkey and Greece and later anyone fighting Soviet pressure or Communist insurgents
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
A strategic point that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and a long sought after object of Russian and later Soviet foreign policy
What are the Turkish Straits?
100
The name for areas of Allied control of Germany after WWII
What are Zones of Occupation
200
Example of US involvement in the Russian Civil War
What is the Polar Bear Expedition or American Expeditionary Force Siberia?
200
Created at the end of WWII that guaranteed the US would be the dominant economic power. Tied the world's currencies to the US dollar. The more business a country did with the US the stronger their currency.
What is the Bretton Woods System
200
Occurred in August 1949 and was made possible in part by Soviet spy rings in the US during WWII
What is the detonation of a Soviet a-bomb?
200
American diplomat in the USSR who wrote a 3000-word message to his superiors in the State Dept. in February 1946.
Who was George Kennan
200
Name for combined US and British zones
What is Bizonia
300
Social and cultural event in the US after WWI in which Americans were convinced that the a Bolshevik Revolution was likely. Led to the Palmer Raids.
What is the 1st Red Scare
300
1944 proposal by Churchill to share control of several Eastern European countries with Stalin. Never came to pass but shows the willingness to work with Stalin during war time.
What is the Percentages Agreement?
300
Plan to put atomic weapons under control of the UN but rejected by the Soviets
What is the Baruch Plan?
300
June 1947 proposal that was intended to prevent the collapse of Western European economies. The main beneficiaries were Britain, France, and Germany
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
The two respective German currencies promoted by the US and USSR after WWII
What are the Deutschemark and Ostmark
400
Period after a communist revolution in which rights and freedoms are suspended in the name of social and economic reorganization
What is the dictatorship of the proletariat?
400
Resulted in millions of tons of supplies reaching the USSR to keep them going in WWII. A sign of US economic superiority.
What is Lend-Lease?
400
A US-dominated institution. Comprised of the US, UK, France, Nationalist China, and the USSR. Originally envisioned by FDR as the policemen who would guarantee world peace.
What is the UN Security Council
400
Soviet alternative to the Marshall Plan
What is COMECON?
400
Term that describes the USSR's effort to starve the people of West Berlin and force the removal of Western forces from the city
What is the Berlin Blockade
500
Soviet organization created to spread Communist ideology internationally
What is the Comintern?
500
Two groups of Poles who competed to control Poland after WWII. Known by the cities in which they were based.
Who were the Lublin and London Poles.
500
A telegram written from the Soviet perspective that claims the US is imperialistic and monopolistic
What is the Novikov Telegram
500
Formally announced in April 1949. Its most important principle was "an attack on one is an attack on all"
What is NATO?
500
US effort to resupply West Berlin and major propaganda victory for the US. A great example of containment