History Cold War Flashcards
Mary McLeod
Civil rights Advocate. United Nations her idea.
United Nations
Organization to keep world peace.
Nuremberg Trials
Prosecute Nazis leaders for war crimes and Holocaust.
Cold War
Starts in 1946. Economic and Political war without fighting.
Soviet foreign policy
Economic alliance with Western Europe.
Iron curtain
Divides East and West Berlin Germany
U.S. Foreign policy
Economic alliance with Western Europe
Truman’s goal
Resist communist takeover with Economic aid
Truman Docterine
400 million for Turkey and Greece
Turkish straits
Connects Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Soviet Gov wanted to use this path Greece refused.
Greek Civil war
Truman took active part by offering both economic and military aid to Greece
Stalin Blockade west Berlin
citizens trapped can’t get food, goal and war supplies
Berlin airlift
supplies were flown in by U.S.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO alliance of western Europe
George “Marshal plan”
13 billion dollars to aid European and Asian counties fight communism