event summary (top 10)

Question 1

Potsdam Conference

Answer 1

July 1945

where many of the post-war disputes were established (beginning of the end of the grand alliance)

Question 2

Truman Doctrine : when, what , consequence?

Answer 2

March 1947
USA to follow policy of containment
established the growing division of Europe into two blocs

Question 3

Marshall Aid : when, what , consequence?

Answer 3

June 1947
financial aid
established the growing division of Europe into two blocs

Question 4

Berlin Blockade

Answer 4

June 1948 - May 1949

demonstrated increasing open hostility between the occupying powers

Question 5

Berlin Wall

Answer 5

1961

marked the permanent division of Germany AND ideological victory of the West

Question 6

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 6

1962

dissipated nuclear tensions

Question 7

Ostpolitik

Answer 7

1969-72

Brandt’s policies began to thaw the division in Europe

Question 8

Helsinki Accords

Answer 8

1975

diplomatic policies incl. human rights

Question 9

Afghanistan War

Answer 9

1979

shows diminishing Soviet power

Question 10

Gorbachev’s tenure

Answer 10

1985-91

unleashed forces of nationalism and independence movements

Question 11

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 11

1989

marked the culmination of months of falling Soviet authority in the Eastern Bloc