Week 12

Question 1

What telegram warns the west of the USSRs intentions?

Answer 1

Kennan’s long telegram

Question 2

What were the 3 big conferences in ww2

Answer 2

• Casablanca/Tehran
• Potsdam
• Yalta

Question 3

At which conference did Stalin bug Churchill and Roosevelt’s hotel room?

Answer 3

Yalta

Question 4

What was Churchill’s post ww2 advice?

Answer 4

Kill the Bolshy, Kiss the Hun

Question 5

What is seen as the first event of the cold war?

Answer 5

Russian Revolution

Question 6

Which Treaty ended the Franco-Prussian war?

Answer 6

Treaty of Frankfurt

Question 7

At which battle does Napoleon III surrender to the Prussians?

Answer 7

Sedan

Question 8

How does Bismarck make the French seem as though France was the agressor?

Answer 8

• Bismark says if you dont intervene against us in the Prusso-Austrian war, he’ll give Napoleon Luxembourg and Belgium
• So, France moves into Belgium (British get pissed off)
• France moves into Rome (assuming France is allied with Prussia)(Austrians get pissed off)
• This is how Bismark makes everyone hate the French

Question 8

What were the terms of the Treaty of Frankfurt?

Answer 8

• German Confederation officialized
• Germany gets Alsace/Lorraine
• French pay massive war reparation funds to Germany (not Prussia)
• France had to recognize the Republic of Germany
• Prussian troops will occupy parts of France at the French expense until the war debt is payed off (2 years to pay it off)
• France’s 3rd republic is formed and recognized by Germany

Question 9

Where is the Treaty of Frankfurt signed?

Answer 9

Versailles

Question 10

In what year does the United States officially recognize the USSR?

Answer 10

1934

Question 11

What was the German liberal slogan?

Answer 11

Freedom to Read vs Freedom to Feed