The Beginning of the Cold War

Setting the Stage

100

The idea that each country should choose its own form of government and leaders

Self-determination 

200

What countries made up the "Big Three" 

The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States

300

Conference where the Allies agreed that the USSR would free Eastern Europe while GB & US would free Western Europe 

Tehran Conference (1943)

400

The final meeting of the Big Three that saw relations deteriorate into distrust between the Soviet Union and the U.S. 

Potsdam Conference (1945) 

500

Yalta Conference (1945) 

Focused on plans for reconstructing Eastern Europe and defeating Japan

Economic & Political Rivalry

100

Single party dominated politics with no significant elections 

Authoritarianism 

200

System where assets are largely privately owned and private interests determine economic decisions 

Capitalism 

300

system that relied on free elections and a free press

Democracy 

400

Economic system that focused on equality and fairness with assets owned by the government 

Communism 

500

One similarity discussed in the reading between the U.S. and the Soviet Union 

Big economic decisions were made by a smaller group of people (govt. or corporate shareholders)

or 

Acted out of fear of each other leading the military to become very powerful 

Conflict

100

$12 Billion in aid to all nations of Europe to help in rebuilding after World War Two 

Marshall Plan 

200

Truman Doctrine 

Public statement that the United States would do what it had to do to stop the spread of Communism 

300

small states that were economically & politically dependent on the larger more powerful Soviet Union 

Satellite countries  

400

The belief that organized workers would overthrow capitalism in all countries 

World Revolution 

500

Forced Soviet initiative to increase industry and collective farming within E. Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania  

5 Year Economic Plans 

Space & Arms Race

100

First artificial satellite 

Sputnik 

200

What does ICBM stand for

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile 

300

Competition to be the first to have a manned satellite orbiting earth and the first to land a human on the moon

The Space Race

400

War deterrent where no matter who started a war both sides would be destroyed by the end of it. 

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) 

500

Countries came up with this as another option for international economic and political order that kept countries out of the Soviet-US rivalry 

The Non-aligned Movement 

Miscellaneous

100

policy advocated for by US diplomat George Kennan to counter Soviet expansion 

containment 

200

The metaphor used to describe the split between Eastern and Western Europe 

The Iron Curtain 

300

much more powerful atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union and The U.S. following WWII

Hydrogen Bomb

400

The new organization designed to promote peace and prosperity and replace the failed League of Nations 

The United Nations 

500

The greatest sports franchise in all history 

The New York Yankees