Cold War - U.s. & Soviets

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Yalta Conference

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Conference in which brits, soviet union, and usa, met -- agreed to divide germany into zones occupied/controlled by Allied forces

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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet leader, signed non aggression pact with germany in 1939

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General Assembly

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Here, each member of the United Nations could cast their vote on a number of issues.

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Security council

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11 membered group in UN which had power to investigate and settle disputes.

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P 5-- 5 permenant members of the scurity council

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France, Soviet Union, USA, China, England. Each could veto any security coucil action.

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Iron Curtain

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Europes'd division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe

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United States Post War Goals

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-Pro democracy, anti communism
-Get raw materials and markets for industries
-rebuild european govs to create stability and new markets
-reunite germany to stablaize and bring security to europe

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Soviet Union Post War Goal's

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Pro communism (World Wide workers Revolution)
-rebuild own economy with industrial equip and raw materials from eastern europe
-control eastern europe to protect soviet boraders and balance US influence
-keep germany divided so it will not cause war again

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German Democratic Republic

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east germany under communist government

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Federal Republic of Germany

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Western Zones of Germany

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Containment

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Policy directed at blocking soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism. Included forming alliances and helping weak countries resist soviet advances

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Truman Doctrine

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Truman's support for countries that rejected communism. Caused great controversy because some nations didn't like USA getting into other countries affairs.

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Marshall Plan

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-provide food, machinery and other materials to help build western europe
-proposed by US secretary of state
-$12.5 BILLION dollars ----great success

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Berlin Airlift

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When the USA aided germany by bringing in food and other necessary supplied b/c the Soviet union had blocked the borders (hoping to keep germany divided

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NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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A defensive military alliance between the USA and Canada and 10 other western european countries

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Warsaw Pact

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Counter act to NATO formed by Soviet Union. It included Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

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Cold War

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a struggle over political differences carried on by without military action or war

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Nuclear War

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the cold war threatened to heat up enough to destroy the world. USA had atomic bombs. 1949 Soviet Union exploded its own atomic weapon.

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H-BOmb

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hydrogen bomb would be thousands of times more powerful than the ABomb.

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Brinksmanship

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a policy of threatening to go to war in reponse to enemy aggression.

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Third World Countries

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developing nations, often newly independent, not aligned with either superpower

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First World Countries

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industrialized capitalist nations: U.S. and its allies

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Second World Countries

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Communist nations led by the Soviet Union

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Cold War strategies
(to gain influence in the Third World)
(see chart p. 983)

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-backing wars of revolution, liberation, or counterrevolution
-covert activities (spying, assassination attempts)
-(U.S.) military aid, schools and anti-poverty programs, volunteers
-(Soviets) military & technical aid to India and Egypt

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nonaligned nations

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the independent countries who remained neutral in the cold war competition between the USA and the soviet union