chapter 26 partially quiz Flashcards
(58 cards)
location where more concrete plans for the UN were drawn up
Dumbarton Oaks
where did the first official meeting of the UN general assembly take place
London, on January 10, 1946
three parts of the United Nations
- General Assembly (all member states)
- Security Council (U.S., Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, China and 10 elected members)
- Secretariat (secretary-general and his under-secretaries)
head of Communist Russia’s delegation
Andrei Gromyko
official at the U.S. State Department who was later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union
Alger Hiss
war not fought with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, and ideology
“Cold War”
sides of the Cold War
the “free world” (U.S.) vs the “Communist bloc” (Soviet Union)
new nations in the Cold War that were being won over through financial aid and other assistance
“Third World”
nations “independent” but really under the dominance of another
satellite nations
spies in America convicted of treason in 1951 and executed in 1953 for passing vital information to Russian agents
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (info about the atomic bomb)
director of Britain’s nuclear research program who was convicted in 1950 for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism that would detonate the atomic bomb
Klaus Fuchs
man who exposed much Communist activity in the State Department, but was criticized
Joseph P. McCarthy
name Churchill gave the tyranny and oppression that had descended upon the nations of Eastern Europe
“iron curtain”
Soviet-dominated puppet governments created by Communists
people’s republics (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia)
Soviet-occupied side of Germany
East Germany
policy of containment that stated the U.S. would aid any free nation to resist Communist aggression
the Truman Doctrine ($400 million)
program that allowed the U.S. to lend money to provided massive economic assistance to rebuild Europe after WWII
Marshall Plan ($20 billion)
program in one side of Berlin that helped them survive by flying transport planes in with food and other supplies
Berlin Airlift (1948-1949 in West Berlin)
group formed in 1949 to provide mutual consultation and defense whenever one of its members was threatened by Communism
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
a “defensive” military alliance of Eastern Europe to counter NATO
Warsaw Pact
_____ was formed in 1958 to help the nations of Western Europe cooperate more closely
European Economic Community (EEC)
Russian leader after Stalin who “de-Stalinized Russia”
Nikita Khrushchev (he called for a “peaceful coexistence”)
dictator of Yugoslavia who established his own form of Communism and revolted from Soviet control successfully
Marshal Tito (only Yugoslavia and Poland were successful)
symbol of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe
Berlin Wall (built 1961)
