Cold War Flashcards
In Washington DC, in 1944, 39 delegates from different countries met to discuss the new organization known as the ______.
United Nations (UN)
The UN would have a ___________, in which each member would have one vote for each country in the world.
General Assembly
5 permanent members of Security council
US, Britain, France, Soviet Union, China
each permanent member has a power to ______.
veto
The ___________ was a conference where the big three met to discuss the postwar world and the SOviet influence on Polish government.
Yalta Conference
At the Yalta Conference, the three agreed on the __________ which echoed the Atlantic Charter saying that people have the right to choose which form of government they are under
Declaration of Liberated Europe
Berlin was divided into ____ zones even though it was in the Soviet zone
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The Allies would remove ______, _______, and _______ from Germany as reparations
industrial machinery, railroad cars, and other equipment
Yalta marked a turning point in _______
Soviet-American relations
The _______, an era of confrontation and competition between nations, lasted from about 1946, to about 1990
Cold War
The ________ made genocide punishable nationally.
The Text of the Convention on Preventable and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
_______ was the first US delegate to the UN
Eleanor Roosevelt
diplomat George Kennan responded to the SOviets with the _______
Long Telegram
________ was founded as a mutual defense alliance
NATO
NATO consisted of ___________
the US, Canada, Britain, France, Luxembourg, Italy , Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, Netherlands, and Iceland
