History Flashcards
What year was the grand alliance created and what was it?
1941, USA , Britain and Russia coming together to fight there common enemy, Hitler.
Why was the alliance unexpected?
Because the USSR were communist
Who were the leaders involved at the yalta conference?
Roosevelt(USA president)
Churchill (Britain)
Starling
What we’re the leaders aims?
Winston wanted to limit soviet expansion, look after Britain.
Roosevelt wanted Britain rebuilt as capatalists.
Starling was communist abs wanted to prevent previous events.
Who were the leaders for the Potsdam conference in 1945?
Truman replaced Rosavelt, he didn’t get on with starling, no common enemy . Truman saw soviet action in Easter Europe and a communist government was set up.
Why was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Japan refused to surrender so the USA dropped it without starlings consent, causing tension.
What was churchills speech about in 1946?
Britain and American relations were essential to stop spread of communism.
Harry Truman over the period of 4 years did what?
Gave 17 billion dollars to countries being threatened by a communist government.
The Berlin blockade split Germany into ; Berlin, Britain, America and Russia , the western powers wanted to rebuild after the war so they joined without starling knowing, in 1946, what happened next?
Starling blocked all railways and roads causing 2 million people being blocked from wester resources.
What was the arms race?
The race between American and Russia to build hydrogen bomb. American 1952 Russia 1953.
What was the Vietnam war?
USAs theory of domino’s, that if the East Asian countries fell to communism they all would.
