Academic Decathlon 2022-2023: Language and Literature

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Who was the first person to use the term "Cold War"? - ✔✔George Orwell in a 1945 essay When did the term "Cold War" enter mainstream usage? - ✔✔After Bernard Baruch and Walter Lippmann used ... it When did Cold War divisions begin? - ✔✔Late 1943 - early 1946 When were the spheres of influence that became the Iron Curtain drawn? - ✔✔The Yalta Conference in 1945 When were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? - ✔✔August of 1945 What was the Long Telegram? - ✔✔In February of 1946 George Kennan, a US diplomat stationed in Moscow, sent a telegram back to Washington describing Soviet government and saying that the US and Soviet Union could not coexist Who was Nikolai Novikov? - ✔✔A Soviet diplomat in Washington who sent a telegram to the Soviet Union that said that the US wanted world domination When was the Truman Doctrine announced? - ✔✔March 12, 1947 What was National Security Council Resolution 68? - ✔✔A 1950 proposed massive military buildup to deter the Soviets Why did the Soviet Union blockade Berlin in 1948? - ✔✔Great Britain, the US, and France all wanted to combine their portions of Germany [Show More]

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