Early Cold War REVIEW

An Arms Race began between US and USSR for the best _____________ ________________.

What country controlled East Germany after World War 2?

What is Democracy?

The military alliance that started in 1949 between the U.S. and other non-communist countries.

U.S. policy providing economic aid to Greece and Turkey, who were fighting against communism.

After WW2, Russia wanted a _______ _______ of friendly states around Russia.

Why was it called the Cold War?

American policy to stop the spread of communism and keep it within its existing borders

_______ _____ were Communist Eastern European countries dependent on Russia.

This was built in 1961 to keep people from going to the Allied zone.

America had a democracy while Russia had a ____________

In what city was there a blockade followed by an airlift in 1948-1949?

NATO stands for:

Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt attended the ______________ Conference.

This country had the biggest conventional army in the world after WW2.

Who made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946? 

A military alliance formed in 1955 between Russia and communist countries in Eastern Europe

After WW2, the U.S. wanted to reconstruct Germany but Russia wanted _____________.

Russia's leader at the beginning of the Cold War was _______________

A U.S. policy of economic aid for the rebuilding of Europe after WWII

When supplies were dropped by aircraft on West Berlin in 1948-1949 was the ________.

An invisible border between the communist and non-communist countries of Europe.

America was capitalist while Russia was ____________.

Between the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, the U.S. had __________.

Capitalism is the private ownership of _____________ and the right to make money.