keywords week 1

Question 1

atomic bomb

Answer 1

nuclear weapons, one used in ww2 by use against Japan but a constant threat in the Cold War

Question 2

Berlin airlift

Answer 2

operation in 1948-49 using aircraft to transport supplies to west Belin which had been cut off by the USSR

Question 3

Berlin blockade

Answer 3

action by ussr to cut road, rail and canal links between west Belin and the re st of Germany. Aim was to force USA and allies to withdraw from West Berlin

Question 4

capilistim

Answer 4

political, social and economics system centred on democracy and individual freedoms such as free speech, political. beliefs and freedom to do business

Question 5

cominform

Answer 5

organisation

Question 6

cominform

Answer 6

organisation to spread communist ideas and also make sure communist states followed ideas of communism practiced in the ussr

Question 7

communism

Answer 7

political, economic and social system involving state control of economy and less emphasis on individual rights than capitalism

Question 8

democracy

Answer 8

political system in which population votes for its government in elections held on a regular basis

Question 9

dictatorship

Answer 9

system in which one person runs a country

Question 10

iron curtain

Answer 10

term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe separation of eastern and Western Europe into communist and non communist blocs

Question 11

isolationism

Answer 11

policy in the use in the 1920s which argued use should not get involved with international disputes

Question 12

marshall aid

Answer 12

program of us economic aid to Western Europe from 1947-51. Aim was to aid economic recovery but also to prevent more states becoming communist

Question 13

marshall plan

Answer 13

plan behind Marshall aid. although it was an economic program it was also political. Some commentators argued it was an economic form of imperialism designed to allow the use to dominate Western Europe

Question 14

NATO

Answer 14

North Atlantic treaty organisation

Question 15

potsdam confrence

Answer 15

conference held in August 1945 between president. Truman Stalin and Churchill

Question 16

russia

Answer 16

a country

Question 17

superpower

Answer 17

a country in a dominant international position that is able to influence events

Question 18

the west/western powers

Answer 18

term generally used to refer to use and its allies in the Cold War

Question 19

yalta confrence

Answer 19

conference between use ussr Britain in 1945 to decide the shape of the world after ww2 ended