abeka history 10 section 26.2

cold war

cold war

a “war of words” and ideology between the soviet union (communist bloc) and america (free world)

soviet union

communist bloc

america

free world

1. satellite nations

2. trading

3. expand

4. communism

fill in the blank

what were the soviet’s goals?

1. add ________ _________ to its empire 

2. extend its ________ power

3. ________ russia’s borders

4. spread ____________

julius and ethel rosenberg

executed for selling nuclear secrets to russia

klaus fuchs

director of britain’s nuclear research program; supplied russia with a detonator for the atomic bomb

joseph mccarthy

an american senator who led an investigation into supposed communist spies in american government; it was unsuccessful

iron curtain

churchill’s description of soviet control over its eastern european empire

truman doctrine

truman’s policy of containment against communism; financial aid of nations threatened by communism (turkey and greece)

containment

fill in the blank

the truman doctrine was truman’s policy of _____________ against communism; financial aid of nations threatened by communism (turkey and greece)

1. turkey

2. greece

what two countries were affected by the truman doctrine?

marshall plan

european recovery program of economic assistance to rebuild europe after WWII

west germany / berlin

free side

east germany / berlin

communist side

operation air-lift

american aid provided by airplane to west berlin as a result of the berlin blockade

1948-1949

what were the years of operation air-lift ?

north atlantic treaty organization

what does NATO mean?

warsaw pact

fill in the blank

NATO opposed the soviet ________ _____ to defend themselves from the communist attack

nikita khrushchev

leader of the soviet union after stalin’s death

peaceful coexistence

fill in the blank

khrushchev called for a false sense of “___________ ___________” in the world

marshall tito

communist dictator of yugoslavia

berlin wall

built by the soviets in 1961 to enslave east berlin

1961

when was the berlin wall built?

1955

fill in the blank

west germany became a nation in ______ under the leadership of konrad adenauer

konrad adenauer

fill in the blank

west germany became a nation in 1955 under the leadership of ________ __________

• socialist politics

• weak economy

two answer fill in the blank

__________ __________ and a _______ __________ led to the decline of england’s commonwealth

charles de gaulle

became president in 1958 and led france to prosperity

alcide de gasperi

conservative statesman of italy before it fell to coalition governments and red brigade attacks

red brigade

fill in the blank

alcide de gasperi was a conservative statesman of italy before it fell to coalition governments and _____ ________ attacks

juan carlos

successor of francisco franco in spain; encouraged democratic rule