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The Cold War Goes Global
S. Gerhardt
Packet #39
Global II
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Eastern Side of the Berlin Wall
The Two Sides of the Berlin Wall
Look at the two sides of the Berlin Wall. What can
you conclude?
Western Side of Berlin Wall
OBSERVATION/ANSWER
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ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
 North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 Military alliance formed by the US, Great Britain,
France, Belgium , Italy, Denmark, Iceland, Norway
and Canada.
 Members agreed that an attack on one would be
considered one on ALL
Warsaw Pact:
 Soviet and Eastern European response to NATO
 The pact was also for strengthening the Soviets
hold on Eastern Europe
Berlin Airlift:
 The Soviets blocked the Allies access to the allied
occupied zones of Berlin (June 1948)
 Allies organized supplies to be flown in on
airplanes to be given out to residents of West
Berlin
 The Soviets were humiliated when this airlift was
proved to be successful and they lifted the
blockade on Berlin in May 1949
Stalin’s Successors Hold the Line
 Stalin died in 1953
 Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new Soviet
leader
 He closed Stalin’s prison camps and eased
censorship
Cuban Missile Crisis:
 Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 and wanted
to reform the country
 He sought support from the Soviets
 1962, Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba. President
Kennedy responded by imposing a blockade of
Cuba preventing further shipments
Containing Communism:
 Containment = Holding back the spread of
Communism
 Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine:
 Allowed for American military aid to any country
threatened by Communism
 US gave $400 million dollars in aid to Greece
and Turkey to fend off Communists
Marshall Plan:
 Proposed European aid program (1947)
 US gave money to Western European countries to
stop them from becoming Communist
 Marshall Plan was a great success and extended
American influence in Western Europe
The purpose of both the Truman Doctrine
and the Marshall Plan was to
(1) support the construction of the Iron
Curtain
(2) increase membership in the United
Nations
(3) prevent the spread of communism
(4) attempt to solve world hunger
The Marshall Plan was designed to stop
the spread of communism by providing
(1) government housing to refugees
(2) military assistance to Vietnam
(3) funds for economic recovery in war-torn
European nations
(4) nuclear weapons to North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) members
In the 1950s, what was the status of most
countries in Eastern Europe?
(1) members of the Common Market
(2) participants in the Marshall Plan
(3) allies of the United States
(4) satellites of the Soviet Union
Which group of countries became Soviet
satellites after World War II?
(1) France, Spain, Great Britain
(2) Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
(3) Switzerland, Austria, Belgium
(4) Turkey, Greece, Italy
The use of the Marshall Plan in Western
Europe after World War II strengthened the
forces of
(1) democracy (3) isolationism
(2) communism (4) autocracy
The primary purpose of the United Nations
is to
(1) control world grain prices
(2) promote democratic governments
(3) resolve conflicts between nations
peacefully
(4) unite all nations militarily through
alliances
During the Cold War, nations that adopted
a policy of nonalignment believed they
should
(1) be exempt from United Nations decisions
(2) restrict trade with neighboring countries
(3) reject international environmental treaties
(4) follow a course independent of the
superpowers
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) was initially formed to
(1) promote religious freedom
(2) defend Western Europe from Soviet
aggression
(3) isolate member nations from the rest of
the world
(4) stop the flow of immigration between
member nations
The purpose of the Marshall Plan after
World War II was to
(1) promote the spread of militarism
(2) force the losing nations to help areas
destroyed in the war
(3) rebuild national economies to stabilize
governments
(4) strengthen the alliances that had won the
war
The Truman Doctrine, Korean War, crisis in
Guatemala, and Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan were all
(1) reasons for the Industrial Revolution
(2) examples of Japanese imperialism
(3) events of the Cold War
(4) causes of World War II