Related Issue 2: Chapter 7

Question 1

What popularized the “iron curtain?”

Answer 1

A speech by Winston Churchill

Question 2

What was the Cold War?

Answer 2

An economic, social, and political struggle between the USA and Russia

Question 3

What did both countries involved in the Cold want?

Answer 3

They wanted victory on each other and the other countries in the world

Question 4

Who met in Yalta?

Answer 4

The big 3. FDR (USA), Churchill (Great Britain), Stalin (USSR)

Question 5

What was the purpose of the meeting at Yalta?

Answer 5

To redraw the map of Europe since WW2 was ending

Question 6

What was the agreement about Germany in Yalta?

Answer 6

In order to stop Nazi Germany, it was decided that it be divided into 4. It will also be demilitarized and denazificationed

Question 7

What was decided about the citizens of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia at Yalta?

Answer 7

They were to be handed over to their respective countries regardless of consent

Question 8

How did Roosevelt get Stalin to commit to joining the UN?

Answer 8

He told them each of the five participants would have a veto power on any ruling

Question 9

What did the Soviet want for Germany postwar?

Answer 9

Soviets wanted reparations and a weakened Germany

Question 10

What did the Allies want for Germany post war?

Answer 10

They wanted a renewed western European economy that depended upon a unified Germany

Question 11

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 11

US aid offered to all European countries that had strings attached related to economic policies

Question 12

What was the goal of the Stalinization?

Answer 12

To install communism in all states liberated from Nazi Germany

Question 13

What happened in Hungary postwar?

Answer 13

Hungarians revolted, this was short lived as it was crushed by the soviet army

Question 14

Why was it a cold war and not a hot war?

Answer 14

Because there was lack of common enemy to fight so it was replaced with ideological conflict

Question 15

How did the USSR and USA emerge from WW2?

Answer 15

Stronger than before when they entered it with many resources like a military and economic and political influence

Question 16

What was the goal of the Potsdam conference?

Answer 16

Decide on postwar peace

Question 17

What was the agreement at the Potsdam conference?

Answer 17

The USA and British militaries were allowed to administer to the western sphere of influence
The soviet Union was allowed to administer the eastern sphere of influence

Question 18

What was seen as the beginning of the Cold War?

Answer 18

The Potsdam conference

Question 19

What is Expansionism?

Answer 19

An attempt to enlarge territorial and ideological influence beyond a country’s borders and allies

Question 20

What are spheres of influence?

Answer 20

Territories and countries which a powerful country dominates

Question 21

Who fell under the American Sphere of influence?

Answer 21

The countries that western allies had liberated from Nazi Germany

Question 22

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 22

Because of the fear of communism, the USA was prepared to intervene throughout the world to protect democracy.

Question 23

How did the USA practice containment?

Answer 23

By lending equipment, advice, and a military force

Question 24

What is containment?

Answer 24

The attempt to thwart another country’s expansionism through means other than direct warfare

Question 25

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 25

An American response to poverty and hardship in post war Europe

Question 26

What were the conditions that communism thrive in?

Answer 26

• Economy in ruins
• Shortages of goods
• Bread still rationed
• Coal shortages

Question 27

What did the Marshall plan give Europe?

Answer 27

Funds in the form goods made by American firms

Question 28

How did Stalin react to the Marshall Plan?

Answer 28

He did not like it and forbade eastern European countries from having anything to do with it

Question 29

What was the Berlin Blockade??

Answer 29

When the soviet union blocked the western forces railway and road access to western Berlin

Question 30

What was the goal of the Berlin blockade?

Answer 30

To force the western powers to allow soviets to supply all of Berlin’s goods

Question 31

What was the response of the Allies to the Berlin blockade?

Answer 31

The USA Britain royal air force flew flights that provided tons of food for the year. By the spring the effort was considered a success

Question 32

What is the Berlin Wall?

Answer 32

A physical barrier separating eastern Berlin from Western Berlin to prevent people from leaving the soviet side

Question 33

What was the Bandung Conference?

Answer 33

A meeting where the countries that did not want to follow American or Soviet ideology. They discussed ye non-allied movement

Question 34

Why did many countries join the non-allied movement?

Answer 34

To oppose colonial and imperialist intentions of the USA and USSR