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Yalta Conference
The second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Important to Cold War because set Germany into 4 parts and made the Soviets a "powerhouse." -
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Containment Policy
Using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. Significant to the Cold War because this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence. -
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The Iron Curtain
Boundary dividing Europe into 2 areas. It's important to the cold war because it symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and satellite states from open contact with the West. -
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Potsdam Conference
Last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. (President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin) The talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. Significant to the Cold War because decisions were made on Germany -
United Nations
International organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. It's important to the Cold War because it helped with developing peace between conflicts during the cold war. -
UN Atomic Energy Commission
resolution "to deal with the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy." ; It is significant to cold war because it marked as the turning point of the Cold War -
Long Telegram
It was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington. This helped the Cold War by it clearly outlining the US policy on controlling the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. It was important to the Cold War because it became the basis of the Cold War policy of containment. -
Marshall Plan
Channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Significance to the Cold War of the Marshall Plan is it sparked economic recovery. -
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Soviet Blockade in Berlin
It's important to the Cold War because it was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War; The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states. Significance to Cold War = to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact -
NSC-68
National Security Council Report 68 was a 58-page top secret policy paper by the United States National Security Council presented to President Harry S. Truman. It was one of the most important statements of American policy that launched the Cold War -
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The Korean War
Began when North Korea invaded South Korea; the United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. The significance to the Cold War = set conflict between the communists and the West -
Brinkmanship
Describe the tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one's opposition to retreat. Significance to the Cold War is it brought nuclear weapons into play which they then practiced brinkmanship -
Warsaw Pact
"treaty of mutual friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance,”
included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. Significant to Cold War = formed a rival alliance during the Cold War. -
Mutual Assured Destruction
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. Significant to the Cold War because it allowed unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. -
U2 Spy Plane
Plane flown by CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down while in Soviet airspace and it was significant to the Cold War because it created a meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. -
Berline Airlift
Military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany surrounded West Berlin. It's significant to the Cold War = divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
