| Question | Answer |
| who met at the Yalta conference after WWII | The Allies.
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What U.S President helped escalate tension between the U.S and Soviet Union | President Harry Truman.
| Why did America think that the Soviet Union was taking over the World | Because the Soviet Union was helping spread Communism around the world.
| Why did the Soviet Union think that America was taking over the world | because they were setting up naval and air-force bases around the world.
| what is the Iron Curtain | barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West.
| Name The Western Superpower | American.
| What does Truman mean when he says “armed minorities or outside influences" | The communist party or Soviet Union
| What or who is Truman referring to when he says “free people who are resisting attempted subjugation" | The people of Turkey and Greece.
| Name the Eastern Superpower | Soviet Union.
| What is the Containment plan the U.S used to aid Turkey and Greece | the Truman Doctrine.
| What did George Marshall mean by "The Seeds (of Communism) are nurtured by misery and want | That with out aid more countries will fall to communism.
| Truman described Marshall aid and the Truman Doctrine as "Two halves of the same walnut"what did he mean by this | That both plans are aimed at helping European countries and stopping the spread of communism.
| What is a flash point | is a place, event, or time at which trouble such as violence or anger, flares up.
| what is a satillet state | is a “country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country.”
| Why was Churchill so insistent about the U.S helping European countries? | Because the British were to weak to do it themselves.
| How did the Soviet Union view the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan? | The Soviet Union viewed it as American trying to take over the world.
| What is a political Conservative? | someone who wants to preserve the existing order of society, government, and the economy
| What is a political liberal? | is someone who supports progress, often through change.
| Who presented the Soviet Union as an immediate threat? | President Truman.
| What is espionage? | the practice of spying or using spies.
| What Senator led a crusade to find Communist traitors in the U.S Government during the 1950s? | Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
