2. What’s Cold War ?
• The cold war was
continuing state from
roughly 1946 to 1991 of
political conflict
between military
tension and economic
competition between the
communist world.
3. How were Russia and America
different by the end of world war two?
• Truman wanted peace and prosperity.
• Stalin wanted to dominate Europe.
• Hitler commits suicide, as Russian
troops approach Berlin.
4. How did President Truman respond to
Soviet domination of Eastern Europe?
• Stalin told Truman, when asked to withdraw from Eastern
Europe, that Russian troops were staying as a buffer zone.
• The Iron Curtain refers to physical and ideological boundary
that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO
countries from 1995 to 1997.
• Truman’s Doctrine was the US support to aid nations that were
being threatened by outside influence, and promised to help
struggling nations against communism.
• The Containment pact was that America shall not go to war
with countries that were already communists, but to support
those against communism.
5. Causes and results of Stalin’s
blockade of Berlin.
• The city of Berlin was located
in East Germany. The US
needed the USSR's permission
to bring all supplies through
East Berlin using roads and
railroads. The USSR cut off US
access to their controlled roads
and railroads leading to West
Berlin by making the Berlin
Blockade.
