Short Review - The Cold War Takes Shape in Europe

Before WW2, US foreign policy was mostly (a)   . After WW2, US foreign policy was mostly (b)   .

• isolationist

• interventionist

Match the following

• Europe will be divided 

  East (USSR) & West (Allies)  

  United Nations 

  Free Elections in E. Europe

• Potsdam 

• Beginning of the Cold War

  No Free Elections (Big Lie) 

  Nuremberg Trials

• Bretton Woods

• New World Financial System

  IMF & World Bank 

  US dollar global currency.

• Yalta

How did the atomic bomb change the relationship between the US and the USSR at the end of WW2?

• The US no longer needed the USSR to invade Japan.

• The US and the USSR became allies in the Cold War.

• The US and the USSR became rivals in the Space Race.

• The US and the USSR became partners in nuclear disarmament.

Match the following

• Advocates for Containment of USSR

• Long Telegram

• Official Adoption of Containment

• Marshall Plan

• “Money Plan”

  New Deal for Europe

• Truman Doctrine

• Warning of East West Divide

• Iron Curtain Speech

What are some notable early Cold War incidents from 1945 to 1953?

• US interventions in elections in Greece & Turkey

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Berlin Airlift

• Creation of the Berlin Wall

Put the correct label on the military alliance for each region.

a

b

NATO

Warsaw Pact

European Union

United Nations