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18 Cards in this Set
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What is a 'Cold War'?
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Fighting with politics instead of fighting on the battle ground.
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What is a 'Proxy War'?
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A war happening without the countries fighting each other.
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What are the three economic systems?
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Market Economy, Planned Economy, Mixed Economy
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What is a Market Economy?
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Little government intervention or central planning
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What is Planned Economy?
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All economic decisions are made centrally by the state.
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What is a Mixed Economy?
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Features characteristics of both capitalism and socialism. Allows a level of private economic freedom. Has the positives of each different system.
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What are the differences between Communism and Capitalism?
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Communism wants the distribution of wealth and to take from the wealthy and give to the poor. Capitalism believes in free enterprise and democracy, and didn't want to take money from the wealthy.
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What were the two conferences at the end of WW2?
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Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference
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What was the Yalta Conference?
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was a meeting between Winston Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in February 1945, to discuss the re-establishment of the nations destroyed by Germany. It focused on the punishment of the defeated Germany.
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What was the Potsdam Conference?
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was a meeting between Churchill, Stalin and Truman on 8th May 1945 to negotiate terms for the end of WW2. The Potsdam Conference divided Germany into 4 zones, one for each allied nation (USA, Soviets, Britain and France.)
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What happened when Germany was divided?
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Germany and its capital, Berlin, was divided into 4 zones. The Americans, British and French ruled the eastern side, the Soviet ruled the West side.
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What was the 'Iron Curtain'?
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mentioned in Churchill's 5th March 1946 speech, symbolised the ideological conflict and boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas form the end of WW2.
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What was the Truman Doctrine, 1947?
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Due to Britain's inability to continue paying for troops prompted Truman to develop a generous aid policy, with USA willing to provide financial aid to any country who wanted to resist communism. The US wanted to play a dominant role in world politics.
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What was the Marshall Plan, 1947?
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A plan by George Marshall to rebuild Western Europe and to make its nations wealthy and to establish democracy. It was an economic plan spanned over a period of 4 years. US spend $13 billion on rebuilding western Europe.
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What was the 'Policy of Containment?
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a US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism. It involved using power and wealthy of the United States. It involved using power and wealth of the united states to contain or stop the spread of communism.
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Formation of NATO
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a military alliance initiated in 1949 of non-communist countries in Europe and North America called the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Members pledged to defend each other if attacked by the common soviet enemy.
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The Berlin Blockade
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1948-1949. Lasted 318 days. An attempt by the Soviet Union to block allied access to the German city of Berlin, railway, road and canal access to sectors of Berlin under Soviet control..
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What is Mcarthysm/
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