AP EURO: Ch 28: The Cold War

A period of rivalry and tension between the US and Soviet Union which lasted for a decade. There was tension between these two nations because they both had nuclear weapons so there was fear that they would be used after WWII. There was no actual fighting during this period.

• Cold War

• Hundred Days

• Bay of Pigs

• Truman Doctrine

Trials after the Holocaust which tried 22 of the most high-ranking Nazi participants in the Holocaust for war crimes. 12 were condemned to death, 3 were acquitted, and the rest were sentenced to life in prison. One of its main goals was to bring justice but also to make clear to the Germans the horror created by Nazi leadership.

• Nuremberg Trials

• Tehran Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Marshall Plan

One of the two conferences between the Allied powers to decide what to do to keep the peace after WWII: here the USSR was guaranteed to be the only power to liberate Eastern Europe.

• Tehran Conference

• Yalta Conference

• Nuremberg Trials

• Potsdam Conference

One of the two conferences between the Allied powers to decide what to do to keep the peace after WWII: here Stalin pledge to allow democratic elections in eastern Europe (but later reneged) and Germany was divided into four zones controlled by the U.S., France, Britain and USSR. (After the war, the Soviets did not allow the reunification of Germany and dominated their zone.)

• Yalta Conference

• Tehran Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Nuremberg Trials

British Prime Minister Winston Churchhill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin met to negotiate the terms for the end of WWII. Truman demanded free elections on eastern Europe but Stalin refused - he wanted a "buffer zone" between Germany and the USSR for protection against a future war. In the end, it was decided that Germany would be occupied by the Americans, British, French, and Soviets and be demilitarized and disarmed.

• Potsdam Conference

• Tehran Conference

• Yalta Conference

• Nuremberg Trials

The political, military, and ideological barrier which divided Europe into an East (Soviet influenced) and a West (US and Western influenced).

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Brexit

• NATO

Because the US, Britain, and France believed Germany was no longer a threat and that its economy was vital to the recovery of Europe, they gave back their zones of influence and ____ ______ and ____ _______ were formed.

• West Germany, East Germany

• West Germany, South Germany

• North Germany, South Germany

• Easter Germany, North Germany

The government of West Germany starting in 1949. It was led by Konrad Adenauer.

• Federal Republic of Germany

• Democratic Republic of Germany

• Reichstag

• Duma

The government of East Germany starting in 1949. It was led by Walter Ulbricht.

• Democratic Republic of Germany

• Federal Republic of Germany

• Duma

• Tanzimat

A US policy of containment which stated that they would offer military assistance to nations that resisted communism. It started after the US aided Greece and Turkey helped defeat communist insurgencies.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Manifest Destiny

• Isolationism