25-1 ROOTS OF THE COLD WAR

By Justin and Ap

Vocabulary

Iron curtain: barrier of secrcey and cenorship that keeps a country isolated form

Satellite: is a county ruled by another nation

Containment: policy of limiting the expansion or influence of a hostile power a Amercain method to limit soviet expansion during the could war

Airlift: emergency shipment of supplies sent by airplane

Veto: or reject

Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman became President upon the death of franklin Roosevelt in 1945

Truman served as president until 1953 then remained active in politics

Americans became fearful in 1949

Russia had the knowledge to build their own atomic bomb in 1949.

Soon after China fell under the control of communist leader, Mao Zedong.

Soon after china had the knowledge to build their own atomic bomb.

The largest Nations, Soviet Union and China who had the most people and were both communist and had their own atomic bomb.

North Atlantic treaty

Nato April 1949 Formal military alliance to grad against a sovet attack

The sovet union the satellite nation of eastern Europe formed their own Alliance the Warsaw pact in 1955

Communist and non-CommunistCommunist was Russia non-communist France Great Britain United States of America

two Leaders - Democracy vs Communism

Harry S Truman Vs Josef Stalin

The Berlin Airlift

Berlin is the capital of Germany and has twoMillion residents. In June 1948, the Soviets set up a blockade

around Berlin. Western allies supplied the city almost a year.