Ch.25 pt.1

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

Question 2

Iron Curtain Speech

Answer 2

n one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

Question 3

Containment and George Kennan

Answer 3

• the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
• an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian. He was known best as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War on which he later reversed himself.

Question 4

Truman Doctrine

Answer 4

the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.

Question 5

Marshall Plan

Answer 5

was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War …

Question 6

Berlin Airlift

Answer 6

A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall ), had cut off its supply routes.

Question 7

NATO and Warsaw Pact

Answer 7

• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
• A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe

Question 8

1948 Elections

Answer 8

• Elected President. Harry S. Truman. Democratic