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What was the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall?

• It marked the break up of the Soviet Union into smaller countries

• It marked the point when Germany became a Communist nation

• It was the only successful attack by the U.S. on a Communist target

• It signaled the end of Communist domination of Eastern Europe

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

• To protect the Soviet Union from an invasion by the U.S. and its allies

• To protect domestic Western Europe from a Soviet Invasion

• To prevent citizens of communist East Berlin from escaping to democratic Western Europe

• To prevent Soviet spies from infiltrating Western Europe

Included a higher minimum wage, creation of national insurance plan, and expanded Social Security benefits for the elderly

• Warsaw Pact

• Yalta Conference

• Fair Deal

• Marshall Plan

Where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss postwar plans

• Yalta Conference

• United Nations

• Nuremberg trials

• United Nations

Policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism

• Marshall Plan

• Yalta Conference

• United Nations

• General Assembly

Resulted in western Europe receiving more than $13 billion in U.S. loans for economic recovery

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

• GI Bill of Rights

Alliance of the United States, nine Western European countries, Iceland, and Canada

• Taft-Hartly Act

• General Assembly

• Cold War

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Organization dedicated to finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts

• United Nations

• General Assembly

• The Powder Puff Girls

• International Military Tribunal

Used to describe the long struggles for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union

• Fair Deal

• United Nations

• Cold War

• Hot War

Means to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world

• The Space Race

• The Berlin Wall

• Fair Deal

• Truman Doctrine