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cold war bh
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cold War | An intense rivalry between two superpowers with diffrent political and economic views, America and the Soviet Union. Post WWII. |
| What did Allied Leaders decide at Yalta about several European governments? | Germany was divided into 4 zones (USSR, US, Great Britain, and France). Eastern Europe was set up with temporary goverments and USSR promised to declare war on Japan within 3 monthes of germanys surrender. |
| What did the Truman Doctrine result in? | to stabilize the Greek government and ease Soviet demand on Turkey. Fight communism world wide. |
| Waht is Brinkmanship? | The willingness to go to war to get the other side to back down. |
| What is containment? | keeping communism from spreading |
| What is McCarthyism? | A time of extreme Anti Communism. Fuled by Joseph McCarthy. |
| What is NATO? | a mutual defense pact with western Europe to aide eachother in the event of an attack. paired with Marshall Plan. |
| What is Suputnik? | the fist artificail satilite to orbit the earth. Made by the soviets. caused america to feel they were technologicaly inferior to Soviet Union. |
| What is the Iron curtain? | Seperates the communist nations of western europe from the west. |
| What is the Red Scare? | the overall fear of communism. |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | A mutual military alliance between the USSR and its satilitte nations. |
| What was the main difference in opinion btwn the Us and Soviet Union about Germany at the Postdam Connference. | was to work out the Future of germany about their military and politics. |
| What was the purpose of th Marshall Plan? | to rebuild economics of Europe and to prevent the spread of communism. |
| Who fought in the Korean War? | The UN, China, the USSR, The U.S., Canada, France, U.K, Australia and North and South Korea. |
| Who was the Soviet leader following Stalin? | Nakita Khruschev |
| Who were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg? | they were a couple of self proclaimed american comminust, who were acused of being soviet spies. pleaded inocent till they were executed. |
| Who were the Big Three at Yalta? | Stalin (USSR), Roosevelt (US, and Churchill (Great Britain) |
| When did support for McCarhty begin to fade? | When he started to put his trials on T.V. |
| Why did Truman fire McArthur? | because McArthur said that he could do a better job than the presient, and he was being disrespectful. |
| Why was the Berlin Airlift impotant? | because Soviet Union blockaded Berlin so that nothing could come in or out, so America flew in plans full of supplies to the Berliners. |
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