Beginning of the Cold War

NATO was established to protect its members from the Soviet Union and communism. What does NATO stand for?

• No Art That Oozes

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• North Atlantic Trade Organization

• North Atlantic Trout Organization

An alliance formed by the Soviet Union in 1955, with seven Eastern Bloc, or Eastern European nations. Gave the USSR more power over satellite countries.

• Warsaw Pact

• Soviet Pact

• Wolf Pact

• Eastern Bloc Pact

Soviet Union blocked all roads and rails so Great Britain, US, and France would leave Berlin and the Soviets could control all of Berlin.

• Berlin Lockdown

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Road Block

• Berlin Quarantine

Airplanes dropped food and other supplies to West Berliners from June 1948 until May 1949, when the Soviet Union ended the blockade.

• Berlin Air Plane

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Air Survivor

• Berlin Feed East GErmany

Recovery program put into place by the United States to help European nations rebuild after World War II. By strengthening their postwar societies, the United States hoped to prevent the spread of communism.

• Communist Bloc

• Truman Plan

• Marshall Plan

• Rosevelt Plan

Organization developed after World War II to peacefully settle problems and promote justice.

• League of Nations

• NATO

• Unitede Nations

• Warsaw Pact

Meeting that took place in 1945 that split Germany into 4 zones ~ US, Soviet Union, France, & Great Britain

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• Yalta Conference

• Splitting Germany Conference

Boarder nations between the Soviet Union and the US~ nations that were under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union

• Satellite Nations

• Partner Nations

• Boarder Nations

• Soviet Nations

Term used by Churchill to describe the imaginary boundary between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe

• Berlin Curtain

• Iron Wall

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

A global confrontation and competition between the Soviet Union & the U.S. where there was no direct fighting but conflicts fought through smaller countries

• The Cold War

• The Hot War

• The Soviet American War

• The Luke Warm War