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HY 121 Chapter 23While allies during WWII, the US and this power became rivals following the declaration of peace. They
were the only two powers to arise from WWII. - correct answer ✔✔Soviet Union
Early in 1946, in his famous ______ __________ from Moscow, American diplomat George Kennan
advised the Truman administration that the Soviets could not be dealt with as a normal government. -
correct answer ✔✔Long Telegram
"Containment" in the context of post-World War II international diplomacy on the part of the United
States referred to - correct answer ✔✔the policy by which the United States committed itself to
preventing any further expansion of Soviet power.
In a speech at Fulton, Missouri, Britain's former wartime prime minister Winston Churchill declared that
an ______ _________ had descended across Europe, partitioning the free West from the communist
East. - correct answer ✔✔iron curtain
the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945
until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself
and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. - correct
answer ✔✔iron curtain
speech in March of 1947 when the president can to officially embrace the Cold War as the foundation of
American foreign policy and describe it as a worldwide struggle over the future of freedom - correct
answer ✔✔Truman Doctrine
Term for tensions, 1945-1989, between the Soviet Union and the United States, the two major world
powers after World War II. (page 892) - correct answer ✔✔cold war
General U.S. strategy in the Cold War that called for containing Soviet expansion; originally devised by
U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan. (page 892) - correct answer ✔✔containment
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