History: The Cold War Flashcards
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What term describes the period of political and military tension between the USA and USSR from 1947 to 1991?
Answer: The Cold War
The Cold War was the state of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from approximately 1947 to 1991.
What was the Truman Doctrine (1947)?
Answer: A US policy to provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
The Truman Doctrine committed the USA to supporting free peoples resisting subjugation by outside pressures, specifically targeting communist expansion.
Which event in 1949 shocked the West and intensified the Cold War?
Answer: The USSR successfully testing its first atomic bomb
The USSR's successful atomic bomb test in 1949 ended the US nuclear monopoly and dramatically escalated Cold War tensions.
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan (1948)?
Answer: To rebuild European economies to prevent the spread of communism.
The Marshall Plan was a US economic aid programme to rebuild Western European economies, believing prosperity would reduce communist appeal.
What was the Berlin Blockade (1948–49)?
Answer: The Soviet Union cutting off all road and rail access to West Berlin.
Stalin ordered a blockade of all land and water routes into West Berlin in June 1948, attempting to force the Western Allies out of the city.
NATO was formed in 1949 as a military alliance primarily to counter which threat?
Answer: Soviet communist expansion
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed in 1949 as a collective defence alliance to deter Soviet expansion in Europe.