Aftermath of World War II
Term/Person/Event
World Bank
Definition
Created by US and 43
other nations to provide
development and
reconstruction loans
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United Nations
A new international
peacekeeping
organization formed
after WWII
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Nuremberg War Crimes
Trials
A series of trials in 1945
and 1946 in which former
Nazi leaders were
convicted of war crimes
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the Aftermath of WWII?
GI Bill of Rights
Provided federal funds to
help returning GIs
transition to civilian life.
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word?
Isolationism
A government policy of
not taking part in
economic and political
alliances or relations with
other countries
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took an internationalist approach after WWII?
Internationalism
A policy of creating
strong economic and
diplomatic ties between
nations
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word?
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Affirmed the rights to
life, liberty, and equality
before the law and to
freedom of religion,
expression, and assembly
Origins of the Cold War
Term/Person/Event
Cold War
Definition
The struggle between the
Communist world led by the
Soviet Union and the nonCommunist world led by the
U.S.
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What important decisions were made at this
conference?
Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
met at this conference in the
Soviet city of Yalta to plan for
the end of WWII.
What was important about this conference?
Potsdam Conference
Allied leaders met at this
conference after the defeat of
Germany to finalize plans for
postwar Germany.
Superpowers
Nations that influence or
control less powerful states
Who were the two major superpowers
during the Cold War?
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Containment
The restriction of Soviet
expansion
Iron
Curtain
Symbolized the growing
geographic and political
divisions between Communist
and Capitalist nations in Europe
Truman
Doctrine
Policy that the US must support
free peoples who are resisting
attempted subjugation by
armed minorities or by outside
pressures
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Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
Offered all European nations,
including the USSR, generous
funding to rebuild their
economies as long as the
money was spent on goods
made in the US
A plan to aid economic recovery
in Eastern Europe, encouraged
member states to specialize in
goods and services and trade
with other states.
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this word?
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this word?
List three examples of satellite nations
during the Cold War.
Satellite
Nation
A country dominated politically
and economically by another
nation
What are two examples of ideologies?
Ideology
The set of beliefs that forms the
basis of a political and
economic system
Communism
A type of system characterized
by single-party rule of politics
and government control of the
economy
Capitalism
An economic system in which
individuals and private
businesses make most of the
economic decisions
What are strengths and weaknesses of this
system?
What are strengths and weaknesses of this
system?
The Cold War Expands
Term/Person/Event
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Definition
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Operation that moved
supplies into West Berlin
by American and British
planes during a Soviet
blockade in 1948-1949
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO)
1949 alliance of nations
that agreed to band
together in the event of
war and to support and
protect each nation
involved
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Warsaw Pact
Military alliance between
the Soviet Union and
nations of Eastern
Europe, formed in 1955
Korean
War
Conflict over the future of How can you best remember the meaning of this
term?
the Korean peninsula,
fought between 1950 and
1953 and ending in a
stalemate
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
An area, often along the
border between two
military powers, that no
military forces are
allowed to enter
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word.
What were three examples of First World countries
during the Cold War?
First World
Developing, capitalist
countries
What were three examples of Second World
countries during the Cold War?
Second World
Communist countries
Third World
Covert Action
Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA)
Poor, developing nations
in Latin America, Africa,
and Asia many of whom
had recently gained
freedom from colonial
rule
A secret political,
economic, or military
operation that aims to
shape events or influence
affairs in a foreign
country in order to
support the initiating
country’s foreign policy
Agency created to collect
and analyze intelligence
gathered by agents
operating in foreign
countries
What were three examples of Third World countries
during the Cold War?
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strategy during the Cold War?
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Why was this a significant advancement in the arms
race?
H-bomb
A hydrogen bomb, more
powerful than an atomic
bomb, first tested in 1952
Arms Race
A competition between
nations to achieve the
more powerful weapons
arsenal
Brinkmanship
A foreign policy
characterized by a
willingness to push a
dangerous situation to
the edge of war, rather
than give in to an
opponent
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word.
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Deterrence
Collective Security
Mutual Assured
Destruction (MAD)
38th Parallel
A foreign policy in which
a nation develops a
weapons arsenal so
deadly that another
nation will not dare
attack
A system in which a
group of countries
commit to jointly dealing
with a nation that
threatens the peace or
security of any one of the
countries
The principle that either
side would respond to a
nuclear attack by
launching its own
missiles
What is an example of how the US used this
strategy during the Cold War?
Why was this significant during the Cold War?
The first artificial satellite
to orbit Earth, launched
by the Soviets in 1957
U-2 Incident
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strategy during the Cold War?
The line dividing North
and South Korea
Sputnik
Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles
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Why was this a significant event during the Cold
War?
What significant advancement did these make in
the arms race?
Long range rockets that
could deliver nuclear
weapons to their targets
around the world
A 1960 incident in which
the Soviet military used a
guided missile to shoot
down an American U-2
spy plane over Soviet
territory
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War?