Event A: The WW II Alliance b/w Soviet Union and USA

1. What event made the USSR and USA allies in WW II? Why were they enemies before this alliance?

2. What promises or provisions were made at Yalta that were not upheld at Potsdam? Why the difference?

3.Due to the inability by BOTH the USSR and USA to negotiate, reason, and reconcile, Europe was collectively divided
into TWO sectionsExplain.

Event B: Economic & Military Alliances in Europe

6. Goal(s) of the Molotov Plan:

5. Major countries that joined this alliance:

7. Major countries that joined this alliance:
4. Goal(s) of the Marshall Plan:

5. Major countries that joined this alliance:

NATO Warsaw Pact

11. Goal(s) of the Warsaw Alliance:
8. Goal(s) of the NATO Alliance:
10. Similar?
5. Major 5. Major countries
countries 12. Major
that countries
joined thisthat joined this alliance:
9. Major countries that joined this alliance:
that joined 5. Major alliance:
this alliance: countries
that joined
this alliance:
Event C: Communist Rebellions in Greece & Turkey

13. What happened when funding ran out for the British support of democratic strongholds in Greece and Turkey?

14. Explain the Truman Doctrine (Containment):

15. Though the USSR and USA never directly fought each other, how did the two indirectly fight with each other?
 Event D: The Development of Nuclear Weapons

16. What was NSC 68?

17. What is one problem associated w/an Arms Race?

18. How do you know when/if someone wins an arms race?

Event E: The Berlin Crisis

19. Who controlled WEST GERMANY/Berlin?

5. Major countries that joined this alliance: 20. What was the Berlin Crisis (aka Berlin Airlift)?

21. Using your tablet, label the following on the map of Berlin:
West Berlin, East Berlin, Berlin Wall, & Checkpoint Charlie

Event F: The Korean War

21. Who was Mao Zedong and what was
his relationship with the USSR?

22. What prevented the US Christmas

Victory in December 1950?

23. What is the danger of a stalemate?