History Questions

Soviet Allies Cold War alliance that agreed to protect each other in the even of an attack

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons

British, American and French zone of Germany and was democratic.

After WWII, Germany was divided into two countries, this part was communist in government and had a command economy

The Allies response to the Soviets blockade of West Berlin

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

began as a civil war between North and South Korea (which had been established by the USSR and US respectively), but the conflict soon became international and in the end left Korea divided along the 38th parallel.

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

FDR, Churchill and Stalin met here in 1945, Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany

Officially the European Recovery Program; U.S. economic program for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe.

Eastern European states under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War

July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany at this conference to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

the right of people to choose their own form of government

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.

A provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledged that it alone was responsible for WWI

the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations and acceptability of total blame from the Germans

A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.

Control trade and oil supplies were the two reasons both the Axis and Allies wanted to control

Who did the allies decide to defeat first in WW2?