Wednesday's Short Answer Exam Study Guide

Origins of the Cold War Short Answer Exam

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Please know the following (1-45) for Wednesday's exam: 

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1. What are the capital cities of Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Austria
2. What are the "Eight Steps"
3. Know the following "key players": Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Attlee, Stalin, Molotov, Stimson, Marshall, Oppenheimer, Keenan, Tito, Adenauer
4. What is the Grand Alliance, aka the Big Three
5. Know the order of the major wartime conferences
6. Know at least one major decision to come out of the Tehran Conference
7. What country was invaded by Germany that started WWII?
8. What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
9. Who were the Axis powers? 
10. why did the Soviet Army stop outside of Warsaw?
11. What was ONE priority of each of the Big Three going into Yalta?
12. What were two major decisions reached at Yalta?
13. What didn't Stalin do with Poland following Yalta?
14. Know each of the major events between Yalta and Potsdam.
15. What was ONE major disagreement at Potsdam?
16. Other than ending the war, what was another reason the atomic bombs were used on Japan?
17. What was ONE statement that shocked the British when Truman delivered the "12-Point" speech?
18. What were TWO key main ideas from Keenan's "Long Telegram"?
19. Where was the "Iron Curtain" speech delivered? 
20. What was Churchill's main point of the speech?
21. What is ONE way that Stalin reacted to the speech?
22. What countries were the focus of the U.S. with the Truman Doctrine?
23. What new foreign policy did the Truman Doctrine embody?
24. What is ONE reason the Truman Doctrine could be considered a turning point of the Cold War?
25. What were the European conditions that led the creation of the Marshall Plan?
26. What was ONE reason that politicians might OPPOSE the Marshall Plan? (MP)
27. What is the official title of the Marshall Plan? (ERP)
28. What were THREE countries under Staln's control that didn't take MP aid?
29. What were FOUR Western European countries that did take MP aid? 
30. What communist country did take MP aid?
31. What is ONE way Stalin reacted to the MP?
32. What does COMECON stand for?
33. What does COMINFORM stand for?
34. What did the U.S. Congress do in reaction to the Czech Coup?
35. Which Eastern European country broke away from the influence of the Soviet Union? Who was its leader?
36. Salami Tactics: How did the Red Army assist?
37. What was the last remaining democracy in Eastern Europe to fall?
38. What was the Middle East country did Stalin fail to keep his promise of removing troops from? Which agency had to intervene to get the Soviets to leave?
39. What are TWO major reasons why the Allies couldn't agree on the joint management of Germany?
40. What were TWO causes of the Berlin Blockade?
41. How did Great Britain, France and the U.S. break the blockade?
42. What are TWO major effects of the Berlin Blockade? 
43. What does NATO stand for? What was its purpose?
44. What year did Germany official split into two countries? What was the formal name of each?
45. Who was the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany?