Unit 8 AP World History Cold War & Decolonization After 1900 Latest Graded A+

Unit 8 AP World History Cold War & Decolonization After 1900 Latest Graded A+ Big Three allies during WWII; Soviet Union - Stalin, United Kingdom - Churchill, United States - Roosevelt/Truman Tehran Conference First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war Yalta Conference FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War Potsdam Conference The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdam, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. Harry Truman () Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb; Korean War during his presidency Cold War A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. Dwight Eisenhower () Republican; Ended Korean War; Maintained peaceful coexistence with USSR; Established modern Republicanism; warned against the militaryindustrial complexSelf-determination Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves Anti-colonialism the movement following World War II in which colonies began to revolt against their captors. Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb) 1,000 times more powerful as an atomic bomb; First tested in 1952 by the U.S. military-industrial complex Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending. United Nations (UN) an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security; successor to the League of Nations which folded after its inability to prevent a second world war Iron Curtain Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Sovietdominated East and the U.S.-dominated West which formed a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region Satellite Countries Countries bordering USSR that Soviets made Communist to have "friendly ring of countries" World Revolution Marx believed that communism would come about only through a world wide revolution to end class conflict - a belief that organized workers would overthrow capitalism in all countriesContainment A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances