Cold War Flashcards
What is a war fought not with military weapons, but with diplomacy and words?
Cold War
Who was the director of Britain’s nuclear research program and was eventually found to be a spy?
Klaus Fuchs
Who was the US Senator known for exposing spies?
Joseph P. McCarthy
Who were the spies convicted in 1951 and executed in 1953?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
What were the Soviet-dominated puppet govts.?
People Republics
Where was Communist-dominated Germany?
East
Where was free Germany?
West
What did Churchill call the wall of tyranny and depression that divided Germany?
The Iron Curtain
What was Truman’s policy that declared the United States would aid any free nation to resist Communist aggression?
containment
What was Truman’s containment policy formally known as?
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Which European plan extended credits amounting to $20 billion over the next four years against Communist expansion in Europe?
Marshall Plan
What was the event in which the US flew supplies into West Berlin?
Berlin Airlift
Which treaty formed in 1949 provided mutual consultation and defense whenever one of its members was threatened by Communism?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
What was the “defensive” military alliance of Eastern Europe (Soviet) to counter NATO?
Warsaw Pact
What was the group that made Western Europe to cooperate more closely?
The Common Market/European Economic Community
Who was the leader of Russia after Stalin’s death?
Nikita Khrushchev
Who was the Communist leader of Yugoslavia who tried to push away from the Soviet?
Marshal Tito
What was built in Berlin as a sign of Soviet oppression?
What year?
Berlin Wall
1961
What was the first time in history that a wall was built to keep people inside their own country?
Berlin Wall, 1961
Who was the chancellor of West Germany?
Konrad Adenauer
three british prime ministers
Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan
France’s 1st post-WWII leader
Charles de Gaulle
became president of France after Charles de Gaulle
François Mitterand
conservative statesman who aided the slow recovery of Italy
Alice De Gasperi
