17.1 - The Cold War Superpowers face off correctly answered 2023
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Meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. agreed to divide Germany into 2 zones of occupation controlled by the Allied military forces. Germany also would have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for its los...
17.1 - The Cold War Superpowers face
off correctly answered 2023
Yalta Conference - correct answer Meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill.
agreed to divide Germany into 2 zones of occupation controlled by the Allied military
forces. Germany also would have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for its loss of
life and property
United Nations - correct answer An international organization formed after WWII to
promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
iron curtain - correct answer the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern
Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
containment - correct answer forming alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet
advances.
Truman Doctrine - correct answer Truman's support for any country that resisted
communism.
Marshall Plan - correct answer A United States program of economic aid for the
reconstruction of Europe after WW2
Cold War - correct answer the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States
and the Soviet Union in the decades following WW2
NATO - correct answer North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend
one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, Canada, and 10 Western
European countries
Warsaw Pact - correct answer a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union
and 7 Eastern European countries
brinkmanship - correct answer A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any
enemy aggression.
Meeting at Potsdam 1.) Cause 2.) Effects - correct answer 1.) Russia is scared of
invasion, so they disregarded that agreement from the Yalta Conference and secured
Communist governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania,
Poland, and Yugoslavia
2.) Truman calls of Russia and tries to get them to let Eastern Europe have free
elections - but Stalin declared that communism and capitalism could not exist in the
same world and Europe was split into 2 halves; east and west.
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