cold war keywords

Question 1

Tehran Conference

Answer 1

Roosevelt, Stalin,Churchill attended the meeting but Stalin and the USSR had their way in the conference and got most of the things they wanted Britain and the USA were to open a second front in may 1944 in France and a united nations would be set up after the ear

Question 2

Yalta Conference

Answer 2

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill attended the meeting. in was agreed that the soviet union would join the fight with America against the Japanese when the Germans were defeated

Question 3

Potsdam Conference

Answer 3

Truman, Stalin, Churchill, and Attlee attended. Truman was willing to stand up to the USSR and didn’t allow the USSR to join them in fighting the Japanese

Question 4

long telegram

Answer 4

sent by George Kennan the USA’s deputy chief of mission and is the US’ ambassador in Moscow this was was his views on the communist system and how the USA was dealing with it this ended up creating the policy of containment

Question 5

Novikov telegram

Answer 5

when the Russian representative in the USA for the USSR sent a telegram to Moscow saying that the American can’t be trusted

Question 6

satellite states

Answer 6

countries west of the soviet union but still controlled by the soviet union as they didn’t allow many elections and the elections that took place were rigged this was so they didn’t become capitalist and destroy the eastern buffer zone

Question 7

eastern bloc

Answer 7

countries controlled by the soviet union on the western borders to stop enemies ever invading Russia again

Question 8

iron curtain

Answer 8

a speech was given by Churchill in which he said “an iron curtain has descended upon Europe” between the soviet union and the rest of Europe

Question 9

atom bomb

Answer 9

a weapon of mass destruction which had already been demonstrated by the USA in WWII at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 10

percentages deal

Answer 10

Churchill excepted the sphere of influence of the soviet union in the east and wrote down the percentage of influence the west would have in country and east would have

Question 11

marshall plan

Answer 11

the plan by America to give money to all the European countries so that after WWII they would not fall to communism but the USSR’s satellite states refused the money

Question 12

berlin blockade

Answer 12

when Stalin ordered all transport and deliveries to the west of Berlin to be halted so the west would starve and have to turn to communism

Question 13

berlin airlift

Answer 13

when Stalin blocked the west of Berlin of transport the US airdropped food to the west so they could continue with their lives this also led to Stalin ending the blockade after 9 months

Question 14

Deutschmark

Answer 14

the currency in the west so that the west could start developing an economy

Question 15

Ostmark

Answer 15

east Germany’s currency created to rival the Deutschmark but was inferior as it was fueled by communism which was less effective than capitalism

Question 16

The grand alliance

Answer 16

The alliance between Britain, USA and the USSR this was created in response to the treat that Germany was becoming and the invasion of the USSR In June 1941

Question 17

Truman doctrine 1947

Answer 17

created by Harry S Truman created the policy of containment where the US would spend its resources to stop the spread of communism to non-communist countries this was because the US had an atomic bomb and wanted to put pressure on the USSR

Question 18

Marshall plan

Answer 18

when the USA offered lots of money, equipment and goods to countries which were affected in WW2 and in return these countries would buy American goods but the USSR and the satellite states refused the US’ Marshall plan

Question 19

NATO 1949

Answer 19

The North Atlantic treaty organization signed by many nations saying they would defend another in NATO if they were invaded created because of the growing threat of the USSR and the east

Question 20

cominform 1947

Answer 20

the communist information bureau it gave the USSR the ability to coordinate communist parties throughout Europe also made in response to the Truman doctrine introduced soviet policies such as the state control of industry and agriculture the organisation also purged anyone who disagreed with Moscow

Question 21

American sphere of influence

Answer 21

where areas which the US would control politically and one of these countries would be Cuba

Question 22

Cuban revolution

Answer 22

a revolution in Cuba in 1959 when Castro overthrew the dictator Batista this led to the US banning sugar from Cuban to destroy the Cuban economy but they turned to the USSR for help

Question 23

Bay of pigs

Answer 23

in January 1961 the USA broke diplomatic relations with
Cuba and Eisenhower created a scheme where exiled Cubans would retake Cuba at the bay of pigs trained by the CIA they were called the Brigada 2506 but ultimately failed and around 100 were killed 1100 captured

Question 24

Fidel Castro

Answer 24

one of the leading socialist who engineered the Cuban revolution and overthrew Batista and turned the country communist

Question 25

La Brigada 2506

Answer 25

the Cuban exiles who were trained by the CIA to recapture Cuba at the bay of pigs but were captured or killed

Question 26

CIA (central intelligence agency)

Answer 26

responsible for training the La Brigada 2506

Question 27

operation mongoose

Answer 27

the operation created by Eisenhower to get rid of communism from Cuba by an uprising from its people this was undertaken by the CIA

Question 28

U-2 spy plane

Answer 28

planes used by the US to spy on the Soviets and the Cubans and any other communists