U.S. History The Cold War

Became president of the U.S after the passing of President FDR in 1945; Got elected president in 1948

• FDR

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• JFK

• Harry Truman

One Political Party; A totalitarian government; The government suppresses all opposition

• Democracy

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Communism

A conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which neither nation confronted the other on the battlefield

• Containment

• Iron Curtain

• Cold War

• World War 2

1945, representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish a world peace-keeping organization.

• NATO

• United Nations (UN)

• Iron Curtain

• Satellite Nations

Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland were dominated by the Soviet Union after WW2. What were these countries called?

• Satellite Nations

• United Nations

• NATO

• Cold War

U.S. Diplomat who recommended a policy of containment

• Harry Truman

• Mae Zedong

• George Kennan

• Joseph McCarthy

George Keenan a diplomat from the U.S.A. proposed a policy to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries. What was this policy called?

• Truman Doctrine

• Satellite Nations

• containment

• Iron Curtain

Imaginary line between the states that were members of the Warsaw Pact and the democratic Western Europe

• United Nations

• containment

• Iron Curtain

• satellite nations

A policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism of totalitarian ideology

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin airlift

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

American initiative to give aid to worn torn countries in Europe after WW2

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment