Global Final Review #3

Two major cities that US decided to drop atomic bombs upon. Resulted in the surrender of Japan and end of World War II.

• Nanjing and Beijing

• Saigon and Hanoi

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Pyongyang and Seoul

A period of tensions between US and USSR characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

• Cold War

• WWII

• Russian Revolution

• Imperialism

European nation that got divided into 4 zones controlled by the U.S., Great Britain, France and Russia. Eventually led to an East and a West half.

• Berlin Wall

• Containment

• Division of Germany

• Truman Doctrine

Cold War containment policy that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by communism with military grade resources.

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Warsaw Pact (1955)

• Truman Doctrine (1947)

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Tiananmen Square

• NATO

A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

• Division of Germany

• Warsaw Pact

• UN

• NATO

A military alliance between Russia and Eastern communist countries against Western capitalist countries

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Division of Germany

• Truman Doctrine

Coordinated effort in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Detente

• Cold War

A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War.

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Airlift

• Truman Doctrine

an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine