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  • When was the Warsaw pact founded?
    1955
  • Which Soviet leader promoted “peaceful coexistence”?
    Nikita Khrushchev
  • Which conference decided Germany’s division?
    Potsdam Conference
  • Why did the USA support Western Europe economically after WWII?
    To prevent communist influence
  • Which side supported North Korea?
    communist bloc
  • What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?
    economic recovery
  • What Soviet-controlled states formed the Eastern Bloc?
    satellite states: East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania
  • What was Germany divided into after WWII?
    occupation zones
  • Who used the term “Iron Curtain” in 1946?
    Churchill
  • What term described Europe’s division?
    the iron curtain
  • What competition escalated military tensions?
    arms race
  • Name 2 permanent members of the UN SC.
    USA, Soviet Union/Russia, UK, France, China
  • Which two countries were the main rivals?
    USA, USSR
  • What global system emerged from Cold War rivalry?
    biploar
  • When did the USSR test its first atomic bomb?
    1949
  • What military alliance was formed in 1949?
    NATO
  • Which city symbolized Cold War tensions?
    Berlin
  • Why was the UN Security Council often paralyzed?
    veto power
  • How did the West respond to the Berlin Blockade?
    Berlin Airlift
  • Why did the Cold War not become a direct war?
    nuclear threat
  • Which conflict followed the partition of British India?
    India–Pakistan war
  • What was the Western Embargo?
    Western countries prohibited exporting certain goods to the Eastern Bloc
  • In which year did the Korean War start?
    1950
  • Which alliance balanced NATO in Eastern Europe?
    Warsaw Pact
  • What Soviet response replaced the Marshall Plan?
    COMECON
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