8.1

Question 1

Big Three

Answer 1

leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Question 2

Tehran Conference

Answer 2

A conference between the Big Three in Iran, where they decided that the Soviets would focus on freeing Eastern Europe while the US and Britain would take Western Europe. The Soviet Union also gained some Polish territory

Question 3

Yalta Conference

Answer 3

Conference at the end of WW2 between the Big Three to decide the fate of Europe and plan the defeat of Japan. The US wanted Soviet help in Japan and a free and democratic Eastern Europe. The Soviets wanted some of the territories Japan had and parts of Eastern Europe as a buffer zone

Question 4

Potsdam Conference

Answer 4

Conference in which the US and the Soviets established their Cold War problems when the US wanted freedom for Eastern Europe but the Soviets refused to give it up

Question 5

Harry Truman

Answer 5

US president after FDR who wanted freedom for Eastern Europe, and a president during the Cold War. he invented the containment policy

Question 6

Cold War

Answer 6

The non-war between the Soviets and US, fought over communism and governing systems with propaganda, secret operations, and an arms race

Question 7

hydrogen bomb

Answer 7

bomb more powerful than nukes developed by the US and USSR

Question 8

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 8

a US president during the Cold War who was worried about the military-industrial complex

Question 9

military-industrial complex

Answer 9

An informal alliance between governments and producers of weapons

Question 10

self-determination

Answer 10

the idea that each country should choose their own government and leaders