Key Topic 4: Start of the Cold War - Key Words

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Across
  1. 1. Berlin _____ - Action by USSR to cut road, rail and canal links between West Berlin and the rest of Germany.
  2. 4. An alliance formed by the USA and other Western states which promised to defend members against any attack, particularly from the USSR
  3. 5. ______ Conference - held in August 1945 between President Truman (USA), Stalin (USSR) and Churchill, then Atlee (Britain). Discussed major issues including the atomic bomb and Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.
  4. 9. Organisation to spread communist ideas and also make sure communist states followed the ideas of communism practiced in the USSR
  5. 10. Soviet 'sphere of _______' - a term agreed at the Yalta Conference in 1945, where large parts of Eastern Europe would be under this
  6. 11. Berlin _____ - Operation in 1948-49 using planes to transport supplies to West Berlin, which had been cut off by USSR
  7. 13. The former Russian Empire after it became a communist state in the 1920s
  8. 15. was only used in WW2 by the USA against the Japanese but was a constant threat in the Cold War
  9. 18. ______ Conference between USA, USSR, and Britain in 1945 to decide the shape of the world after WW2
Down
  1. 2. Political, social and economic system centred of democracy and individual freedoms such as free speech, political beleifs and freedom to do business
  2. 3. Political, social and economic system involving state control of the economy and less emphasis on individual rights
  3. 6. Political system in which the population votes for its government in elections held on a regular basis
  4. 7. Arrangement between two countries to help or defend each other, usually in trade of war
  5. 8. The _____ - a term generally used to refer to the USA and its allies in the Cold War
  6. 12. Leaders at Yalta and Potsdam Conferences - Roosevelt/Truman (USA), Churchiill/Atlee (Britain), Stalin (USSR)
  7. 14. The _____ doctrine - Policy of US President Truman from 1947 to promise help to any state threatened by communism
  8. 16. - Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe separation of eastern and western Europe into communist and non-communist blocks.
  9. 17. ______ Plan - Programme of US economic aid to Western Europe 1947-51. Aim was to aid economic recovery, but also to prevent more states becoming communist.