The Beginning of the Cold War

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  1. 4. In response to the formation of NATO, the Russia & communist nations in Eastern Europe formed a counter-alliance known as the _____ Pact.
  2. 7. After agreeing to free and fair elections in Soviet controlled nations in Eastern Europe, Stalin decided to keep nations stations in those countries in order to use them as a buffer zone between Russia & Germany essentially turning them into Soviet ____ States
  3. 8. The Berlin _____ was a 1948 attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the U.S., Great Britain and France to supply the western sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany, by cutting off the roads and canals into the city.
  4. 10. As a result of nuclear proliferation, Truman ordered the creation of a more powerful _____ bomb, which was completed and tested in 1952 (the Soviets built theirs a year later)
  5. 11. Via the Berlin _____, over 200,000 planes carried supplies into Western Berlin & successfully prevented the Soviet Union from taking control of the city
  6. 12. The _____ Doctrine (intended to prevent the spread of communism by lending support to any county that was threatened by Soviet communism) provided $400 million in economic & military aid to Greece and Turkey in order to fight off Soviet control
  7. 14. The U.S. policy intended to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world
  8. 17. At the heart of the Cold War was the conflict over whether the post-WWII world would be remade into the image of Soviet communism or democratic _____.
  9. 18. In 1949, the North _____ Treaty Organization was by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  10. 19. After WWII ended, it was agreed that _____ would be divided into four occupation zones
  11. 20. This is the capital city of Germany, which was situated in the Soviet controlled sector of Germany
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  1. 1. Under the leadership of General Douglas _____, UN pushed back North Korean forces after their 1950 invasion of South Korean (they were then pushed back by Chinese forces & the border between North and South Korea remained unchanged)
  2. 2. Following WWII, Korea (which had been under the control of Japan) was divided along the 38th _____ (USSR controlled Northern affairs, which the U.S. controlled Southern affairs).
  3. 3. _____ Assured Destruction is the understanding that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
  4. 5. A conflict between two belligerents in which neither engages in open warfare with the other (a battle of ideologies) is known as a ____ war
  5. 6. Over the course of the Cold War, numerous "____ wars" occurred (ex. Vietnam)
  6. 7. In nineteen-______, the Russian Revolution removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first Communist state.
  7. 9. Upon seeing Soviet control over Eastern Europe, Winston Churchill famously said,"an _____ curtain has descended across the continent."
  8. 11. As a result of America's creation of the atomic bomb in 1945 (and Soviet infiltration in American intelligence agencies) the USSR was able to test their own atomic bomb in 1949 - this led to an ____ race between the two nations
  9. 13. Following WWII, the _____ Nations was created as international peacekeeping organization (with actual soldiers!) to replace the failed League of Nations
  10. 15. The _____ Plan allocated $13 billion in financial aid to European countries to rebuild in hopes that a stable economy would encourage them to opt for democracy rather than communism
  11. 16. Just before the end of WWII, Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt met at the _____ Conference to discuss post-war issues (Germany, reparations etc.)