Cold War 1

Front 1

Yalda Conference

Back 1

Germany divided after WWll into Eastern Germany/USSR and Western Germany/USA, France, GB and Allied leaders agreed all countries freed from Nazi's could hold democratic elections

Front 2

Berlin

Back 2

Capital city of Germany divided 4 ways USSR, USA, GB, France

Front 3

Cold War

Back 3

State of competition, tension, and hostility between the USSR and USA over how the world should be after WWll- USSR wanted to spread communism and the USA wanted to spread democracy

Front 4

Stalin

Back 4

broke his promise and refused to pull soviet troops from Eastern European countries occupied in WWll

Front 5

Satellite States

Back 5

run by the Soviet Union and forced to have communist governments

Front 6

West Germany

Back 6

USA, Britain, and France combined their sections of Germany to create the democratic nation of West Germany.

Front 7

USSR

Back 7

blocked all routes into Berlin

Front 8

Berlin airlift

Back 8

Truman sent cargo planes of supplies for a year to west Berlin when Stalin blocked routes

Front 9

East Germany and East Berlin

Back 9

communist controlled by Soviet Union

Front 10

Marshall Plan

Back 10

request to congress for money to help war torn nations to rebuild in Europe in the hopes they would remain democratic.

Front 11

Nikita Khrushchev

Back 11

replaced Stalin and told Western Europe to withdraw from Berlin and built the Berlin Wall when Kennedy refused.

Front 12

containment

Back 12

Keenan's plan to hold back communism

Front 13

Berlin Wall

Back 13

symbol of the Cold War for 30 years

Front 14

Iron Curtain

Back 14

invisible political line that Winston Churchill said divided Europe

Front 15

Truman Doctrine

Back 15

request to congress for money to fight communist rebels in Greece and Turkey