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PART 1: Competing Ideologies Chapter 8 (pg 184-195) 1. The cold war is known as an ideological conflict. What does this mean? 2. What two countries actually GAINED power as a result of WWII? THE YALTA CONFERENCE 3. Who were the “Big Three” that met at Yalta to discuss re-drawing the map of Europe? 4. List the two main agreements from the Yalta agreement. THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE: 5. Both Harry Truman (the new President of the United States) and Clement Atlee (The new Prime Minister of Britain) were very ______________________________. At the same time, the Soviet Union had established ___________________________________ in countries that had been liberated by the Red Army. This increased tensions between the former allies. 6. List the five main agreements that were reached at Potsdam:

Expansionism: 7. Define sphere of influence. 8. Generally speaking, what countries fell under the Soviet sphere of influence? 9. Generally speaking, what countries fell under the American sphere of influence? 10. What is expansionism? In your own words, what were Stalin’s main two goals in regards to expansionism? CONTAINMENT, THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND THE MARSHALL PLAN 11. What is the policy of containment? 12. The Truman Doctrine was very much thought to be the political side of the policy of containment. The USA provided at $400 million aid package to __________________ and ____________________ to help them defeat ________________________. In short, this policy was put in place to defeat __________________________. 13. Read the quote by Harry S. Truman. Why is it ironic that he implies it was wrong of Germany and Japan to impose (force) their ideologies on other nations?

14. The MARSHALL PLAN was a much larger ____________________________than the Truman doctrine. Assistance was offered to countries that were both democratic and communist. The USA hoped this would work to fight communism because ________________________ usually did not support communism. 15. What type of economic practices did the USA expect countries to adopt if they accepted money under the Marshall Plan? NATO and WARSAW PACT: 16. What were the “two sides” of the Cold War? 17. What does NATO stand for? 18. List three member countries. 18. Define collective security. 19. What was the Warsaw Pact? 20. Name three countries that were members

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