Cold War Term Matching
Match the following terms with their associate quotes or picture.
A. “It was essentially a bipolar conflict involving two
great blocs that appeared to ‘superimpose’ their
rivalry on the rest of the world….It was a struggle
carried on by all means short of war. There was a
massive arms build up and nuclear weapons made
both sides virtually impregnable. Diplomacy was
turned into a kind of ‘militarised thinking’ that
concentrated on building and strengthening
alliances.”
______ 1. Containment
______ 2. Truman Doctrine
______ 3. Iron Curtain
______ 4. Marshall Plan
______ 5. Berlin Airlift
______ 6. NATO
______ 7. Cold War
______ 8. United Nations
______ 9. Security Council
______ 10. Korean War
B.
C. “I believe that it must be the policy of the United States
to support free peoples who are resisting attempted
subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I
believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their
own destiny in their own way. I believe that our help
should be primarily through economic and financial aid,
which is essential to economic stability and orderly
political processes.”
D. “[To] practice tolerance and live together in peace with
one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength
to maintain international peace and security, and to ensure,
by the acceptance of principles and the institution of
methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the
common interest….We have resolved to combine our
efforts to accomplish these aims. Accordingly, our
respective Governments, through representatives
assembled….Charter ….and do hereby establish an
international organization.”
E. “….it is clear that the main element of any United States
policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term,
patient but firm and vigilant [restraint] of Russian
expansive tendencies…[The US must resist] Soviet
pressure against the free institutions of the Western world
[through the] adroit and vigilant application of counterforce at a series of constantly shifting geographical and
political points, corresponding to the shifts and maneuvers
of Soviet policy. [Such a policy will] promote tendencies
which must eventually find their outlet in either the breakup or the gradual mellowing of Soviet power.”
F. Communism was acting [there] just as Hitler, Mussolini,
and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years
earlier. I felt certain that if [the] South [part] was allowed
to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to
override nations closer to our own shores. If the
Communists were permitted to force their way into [there]
without opposition from the free world, no small nation
would have the courage to resist threats and aggression by
stronger Communist neighbors. If this was allowed to go
unchallenged it would mean a third world war, just as
similar incidents had brought on the second world war. It
was also clear to me that the foundations and the principles
of the United Nations were at stake unless this unprovoked
attack….could be stopped.”
G. “It is my duty, however, to place before you certain
facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in
the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an [dividing line] has
descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the
capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade,
Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the
populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet
sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only
to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases
increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
H. “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it
is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic
health in the world, without which there can be no political
stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not
against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty,
desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of
a working economy in the world so as to permit the
emergence of political and social conditions in which free
institutions can exist…[The] United States Government can
proceed much further in its efforts to alleviate the situation
and help start the European world on its way to
recovery….”
J.
K. “[This] shall consist of fifteen Members….[and it shall
have the] primary responsibility for the maintenance of
international peace and security….In order to promote the
establishment and maintenance of international peace and
security with the least diversion for armaments of the
world's human and economic resources, [this] shall [have]
responsible for formulating….plans to be submitted….for
the establishment of a system for the regulation of
armaments.”