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Cold War + Context: 1944-1960
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10th Grade
03/12/2009

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Term
1944
Definition

election Roosevelt's fourth term.

  • dumps vice, elects Truman
  • Obvious that Germany is going to be defeated.
  • Post War plans
Term
Two Promises
Definition

1.) Roosevelt wanted Stalin to become ally to help fight Japanese

 

2.) League of Nations---failed

created new association of nations--Untied Nations

 

never settled about Germany....

 

 

Term
Yalta Conference
Definition

1945

  • Stalin
  • Winston Churchill 
  • Roosevelt
met in Yalta, Russia
Roosevelt, Churchill wanted:
  •  Germany to remain strong industrial power
  • rebuild devasted Europe
  • nations to be independent
Stalin wanted:
  • Germany to be weak
  • countries that Hilter had taken over--buffer zone for him. put dictators in countries.


 
Term
Manhatten Project
Definition

1942

A-bomb...top secret.

Term
Hiroshima/Nagaski
Definition

1945

250,000 killed combined 

 

Term
WWII stats
Definition

20 million soldiars

40 million civilians 

60 million total

 

US-300,000

USSR-30 million

Holocaust-6 million Jews

3 million other

 

Term
Cold War
Definition

1945-1991

two sides destroy each other, never directly fighting each other. Attacking other countries who are allies/friends...

 

 

Term
Bolshevik Revolution
Definition

1917

USSR

Term
Containment Policy
Definition

1947

lomg term policy.

contain communism, etc...

Term
Greece
Definition

1947

first attempt of containment policy. 

Greece occupied by nazis-->communist resistance movement. 

Stalin spreading influence? 

Term
Truman Doctrine
Definition

1947

"Must be the policy of the US to support free people who are attempting to overthrow communism."

 

gets 4 million dollars

Term
Marshall Plan
Definition

1948

give millions of dollars to Europe

rebuild economy

12 billion dollars

 1950-improvement

Term
Berlin Airlift Crisis
Definition

1948

Berlin divided:

West- USA, France, UK

East-USSR

 

Stalin cuts off west Berlin, blocking main roads

Truman sends airplanes in to deliver supplies (1948-1949)

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