Key People
President of the USA 1945-1953
Who is Harry Truman?
Country defeated in WW2, divided into 4 zones
Where is Germany?
USSR ideology
What is communism?
The US economic system
What is capitalism?
Leader of the Soviet Union 1927-53
Who is Josef Stalin?
Giver of the 'Iron Curtain' speech on a visit to the US in 1946
Who is Winston Churchill?
Region of the world that fell behind 'the Iron Curtain'
Where is eastern Europe?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Effort by Stalin to force the western powers out of West Berlin
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Wartime US president, present at Yalta Conference but died before Potsdam
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Where is Greece?
Mutual defense alliance set up between the US and western allies after Berlin crisis
What is NATO?
The financial pillar of Truman's 'Containment doctrine'
What is the Marshall Plan / Marshall Aid / European Recovery Program?
Stalin's response to West Germany joining NATO
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Author of the 'Long Telegram', American ambassador to Moscow
Who is George Kennan?
Western European countries that the US withheld Marshall Aid from until they had elections and didn't turn communist (need both)
Where is France and Italy?
Conference that took place after Germany had been defeated but before Japan had surrendered
What is the Potsdam Conference?
Secret US project to develop an atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
The derogatory Soviet name for the Marshall Plan
'Dollar imperialism'
Gail Halvorson, also known as ...
Who is 'the candy bomber'?
Modern-day nation that Yalta is in
Where is Ukraine?
"From ...... in the Baltic, to ........, in the Adriatic" the two cities Churchill name-checked in his 'Iron Curtain' speech
Where is Stettin and Trieste?
The acronym NATO stands for...
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
First human to go into space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?