Key Conferences and Policies in WWII and Cold War

These flashcards cover key conferences, policies, and events related to WWII and the Cold War, aiding in exam preparation.

The meeting where Roosevelt and Churchill demanded the "unconditional surrender" of the Axis powers was the __________ Conference.

Casablanca

Future disagreements over the status of Poland began at the __________ Conference.

Tehran

This in February 1945 resulted in a plan to establish an peacekeeping organization and divide Germany into occupation zones.

Yalta Conference

The refusal of the U.S. president to allow the Soviets to claim reparations happened in the __________ Conference.

Potsdam

The foundational American foreign policy of the Cold War, focused on preventing the spread of Soviet expansion, is known as __________.

Containment

The policy declaring that the U.S. must support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation" is known as the __________ Doctrine.

Truman

The economic assistance program proposed in June 1947 to rebuild Western Europe is called the __________ .

Marshall Plan

The __________ Act of 1947 reshaped U.S. military and diplomatic institutions.

National Security

This report argued that the U.S. must independently stop communist expansion through a permanent and massive expansion of the defense budget.

NSC 68

The event where Stalin shut off access to Berlin led to the __________ and Airlift.

Berlin Blockade

The military alliance formed in April 1949 is referred to as __________.

NATO

The alliance formalized in 1955 by the Soviet Union and Eastern European governments is known as the __________ .

Warsaw Pact

The leader who established a communist government in China in 1949 is __________.

Mao Zedong

The conflict that began with a northern invasion of the south in 1950 is known as the __________ War.

Korean

General Douglas MacArthur was famously fired for __________ by the president in 1951.

insubordination

The law that provided housing, education, and job-training subsidies to veterans is known as the _________

GI Bill of Rights

The domestic reform program that expanded Social Security and increased the minimum wage is called the __________ .

Fair Deal

The __________ Act of 1947 damaged weaker labor unions by allowing states to pass "right-to-work" laws.

Taft-Hartley

The Election of ___resulted in a stunning upset victory for the incumbent Democratic president against Thomas E. Dewey.

1948

The congressional group that investigated alleged communist subversion was known as the __________ Un-American Activities Committee.

House

Alger Hiss was convicted of __________, casting suspicion on liberal Democrats.

perjury

The couple executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets were__

Julius and Ethel

The phenomenon named after a senator who claimed to possess a list of communists is known as __________.

McCarthyism

The organization led by Robert Welch that argued U.S. leaders were treasonous is called the __________ .

John Birch Society

The Election of ______ was won by Dwight D. Eisenhower, ending years of democratic rule.

1952