in-class #25: The Cold War
Read in textbook chapter 22 Introduction ("THe Cold War Begins") on pages758-759 and section 1 ("The Origins of the Cold War") on pages 760-765, and answer the questions below (be able to identify and/or explain the meaning of the bold, italicized terms):
1. What compromise regarding Poland did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin reach at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, a few months before the surrender of Germany?
2. In the Declaration of Liberated Europe. what three things did the Big Three (the U.S., Soviet Union and Great Britain) promise to help the people of Europe do?
3. For what geo-political reason would Soviet dictator Stalin want Soviet control of Poland?
4. Why was Germany divided after World War II?
5. What is meant by the term "Cold War"?
6. Why did the U.S. believe that economic growth could prevent future wars?
7. In the "Debate in History" (pages 763-764), why did the American George Kennan blame the Soviet Union for the Cold War, while the Soviet Andrei Zhdanov blamed the U.S.?
8. What was the "iron curtain"?
9. At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 (after the surrender of Germany but before the surrender of Japan), how did Stalin view the news that the U.S. had developed an atomic bomb?
10. Why were the eastern European nations called "satellite nations"?