Significant Individuals
Who succeeded President Franklin D. Roosevelt after his sudden death in April 1945?
Who is President Harry Truman? (x2 Points)
On June 26, 1945, fifty nations signed a charter in San Francisco to create this international organization.
What is The United Nations? (x2 Points)
This term was used to describe the division between a Democratic Western Europe and a Communist Eastern Europe
What is the iron curtain?
In response to the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union Created what pact?
What is the Warsaw Pact? (x2 Points)
The U.S. foreign policy established by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 which pledged American economic and military aid to nations threatened by authoritarian or communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine? (x2 points)
What was the name of the Communist leader which succeeded Stalin after his death?
Who is Georgy Malenkov? (x3 Points)
At this event in 1945 President Truman and Joseph Stalin planned the defeat of Japan and how to occupy Germany.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The purpose of this organization was to proclaim mutual defense against any threat of communism to its members.
What is NATO?
The Soviet Union had this type of government in place.
What is Communism?
Regional armed conflicts supported by the superpowers, like the Vietnam War or Korean War.
What is Proxy Wars?
Which British leader famously declared in 1946 that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe?
Who is Prime Minister Winston Churchill? (x2 Points)
What was America's resposne to the Berlin Blockade by the Soviet Union?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The text defines this term as a "war in which the two enemies did not actually fight each other."
What is the Cold War? (x2 Points)
Germany was split after the war to prevent the rise of a dictator. This was known as:
What is the Four Occupation Zones?
Historical terms describing the division of nations during the Cold War.
This man represented the United States at the Yalta Conference. However, he passed away and was replaced by his successor at the Potsdam Conference a few months later.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Which Policy was created to prevent Communism from spreading and keeping it where it already exists?
what is the Policy of Containment?
Between 1948 and 1951, this Plan contributed nearly 13 billion dollars to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
America Practices this economic theory which allows free markets, private ownership and property rights.
What is Capitalism?
An economic organization led by the Soviet Union that coordinated the economic development of the Eastern Bloc and other communist states.
What is ComEcon?
What was the name of the American diplomat and Soviet expert whose ideas led to the U.S. policy of "containment"?
Who is George F. Kennan?
At this event in early 1945 it was decided that Germany would be divided up into four zones following World War II- each zone belonging to a different Allied power.
What is the Yalta Conference? (x2 Points)
This is a term used to describe Pro-Soviet Communist governments such as those established in Poland, Romania and Hungary after World War II.
What are Satellite Nations? (x2 Points)
Wwhat was the weapons and technological race between the superpowers known as during the Cold War?
What is the Arms Race? (x2 Points)
The political and social reforms initiated in the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, led primarily by Nikita Khrushchev, the process dismantled Stalin's cult of personality, closed labor camps, and denounced state-sanctioned terror.
What is De-Stalinization?