Cold War

Question 1

Ideology

Answer 1

A set of political beliefs

Question 2

Provisional government

Answer 2

A temporary government normally in place until Democratic elections can occur

Question 3

Containment policy

Answer 3

Truman developed this strategy in 1945 which was intended to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. Its main components were the Truman doctrine and Marshall aid .

Question 4

Subjugation

Answer 4

The action of bringing someone or something under domination or control

Question 5

Dollar imperialism

Answer 5

A Cold War term used by foreign minister, Molotov of the Soviet union. He suggested that the Marshall plans was being used by the US to bribe countries to become reliant on the US and join them against the USSR.

Question 6

Cominform

Answer 6

Stalin established cominform (the communist information Bareau) in 1947 to coordinate the policies of Soviet satellite states.

Question 7

Comecon

Answer 7

Stalin established comecon in 1949 to coordinate the economies of Soviet satellite states in response to the Marshall Aids

Question 8

Bizonia

Answer 8

The combination of the American and the British occupation zones on 1st January 1947, during the occupation of Germany after World War II, France later joined, forming a trizonia

Question 9

Deutsch Mark

Answer 9

A basic unit of money that was formally used in Germany, but was introduced in the western zones of Germany in June 1948.

Question 10

Yalta conference

Answer 10

February 4-11, 1945 Churchill, Stalin Roosevelt attended at the black sea near the USSR. They discuss countries after the war

Question 11

Potsdam conference

Answer 11

July 17 to August 2, 1945 Atlee Stalin Truman held in Germany

Question 12

Truman doctrine

Answer 12

The American foreign policy, that pledges that America was support for democracy among the authoritarian threats. The goal of the doctrine is to prevent the expansion of the USS are during the Cold War. It began on March 12, 1947.

Question 13

Iron curtain speech

Answer 13

March 5, 1946 I am curtain was a metaphor of the imaginary line that divide Europe between the democratic world in the west and the communist world in the east.

Question 14

Countries which became communist in Europe

Answer 14

Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania

Question 15

Marshall aid

Answer 15

1948-51 13.3 billion was given to 16 European countries in hope that it would prevent more countries becoming communist. It was part of the containment policy.

Question 16

Berlin blockade

Answer 16

23rd of June 1948 road railways canals in the West Berlin were blocked by Stalin in response the Western powers are live supplies for 11 months which ended until September 1949

Question 17

NATO

Answer 17

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

Question 18

Warsaw Pact

Answer 18

Warsaw Pact was a treaty that established a mutual-defense organization. It was composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Later Albania withdrew from the pact in 1968 and East Germany withdrew in 1990.