APWH Unit 8: Cold War & Decolonization Reference Sheet

Which conference during WWII involved the Allies agreeing to an end strategy where Russia would attack from the east, and the US and Britain would attack from the West, with the USSR getting part of Poland at the end of the war?

• Tehran Conference (1943)

• Yalta Conference (1945)

• Potsdam Conference (1945)

• Paris Peace Conference

Match each World War II conference with its main focus or outcome.

• Negotiated peace treaties after World War I

• Yalta Conference (1945)

• Finalized terms for Germany's surrender and postwar order in Europe

• Potsdam Conference (1945)

• Discussed postwar Europe, free elections, and USSR joining the war against Japan

• Tehran Conference (1943)

• First meeting of the Big Three to discuss opening a second front in Europe

• Paris Peace Conference

Which conference involved the Allies discussing peace in Europe, Stalin refusing to leave Eastern Europe, and Germany being split into four sections?

• Tehran Conference (1943)

• Yalta Conference (1945)

• Potsdam Conference (1945)

• Paris Peace Conference

What international organization was created in 1945 after the failure of the League of Nations?

• The United Nations

• The European Union

• The World Bank

• The International Monetary Fund

Name the two new superpowers that emerged after WWII.

• US and USSR

• US and China

• UK and France

• Germany and Japan

Which ideology is described as 'Capitalism/Democracy/You’re simply the West - better than all the rest'?

• Communism

• Capitalism/Democracy

• Authoritarianism

• Socialism

Match each ideology with the type of challenge it is seen as to the West.

• Seen as the dominant economic system in the West

• Democracy

• Seen as an economic and social challenge to capitalism

• Capitalism

• Seen as an economic, political, and cultural challenge to the West

• Communism

• Seen as the political system promoted by the West

• Socialism

What was the most impactful new technology during WWII that affected the Cold War?

What is the term for Winston Churchill’s metaphor describing the split between Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War?

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Red Line

• Eastern Block

Three ways the Cold War was fought, according to the reference sheet, were (a)   , (b)   , and (c)   .

• Alliances, Arms race/Space Race, Pr
• Direct military invasions, Peace tr
• Economic sanctions, Environmental a
• Colonization, Religious wars, Trade