Test 26 Flashcards
What year did 1,600 delegates and assistants from 50 nations gather in San Francisco
1945
Where did the first official meeting of the UN General Assembly take place?
London
The United Nations permanent building is where
New York City
The three major organs of the United Nations
- The general assembly
- The security council
- Secretariat
Soviet agent and head of Communist Russia’s delegation
Andrei Gromyko
An official at the US State Department later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union
Alger Hiss
A war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, ideology
Cold War
The two sides in the Cold War and the side in the middle
Free world
Communist bloc
Third World
Nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another
Satellite nations
An American couple convicted of treason
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Director of Britain’s nuclear research program who was convicted in 1950 for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism that would detonate the atomic bomb
Klaus Fuchs
Exposed much communist activity in the state department
Joseph P McCarthy
The soviet dominated puppet governments called peoples Republic’s
Poland Hungary Romania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Albania
Communist dominated German Democratic Republic
East Germany
Who coined the term “Iron Curtain”
Winston Churchhill
Another word for the Truman doctrine
Policy of containment
European recovery program
Marshall plan
Free nation of Germany
West Germany
Russia’s defensive military alliance of its own in the Eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
Leader of Russia after Stalin, called for peaceful coexistence
Nikita Khrushchev
The director of Yugoslavia establish his own brand of communism outside the Soviet sphere of control
Marshall Tito
The first time in history that a wall was built to keep people inside their country rather than to keep enemies out
Berlin wall erected 1961
Chancellor of West Germany
Conrad Adenauer
Western Europe form the common market
European economic community
