Additional: Origins of the Cold War Flashcards
(11 cards)
Which three countries formed the ‘Grand Alliance’ during the Second World War?
Q. What was the Atlantic Charter?
Q. What was the dominant ideology in the USSR?
A. The USSR, the USA and the UK.
A. A joint declaration of US and British war aims.
A. Marxism-Leninism (communism).
Q. When was the Yalta Conference?
Q. What were Stalin’s aims at Yalta?
Q. What were Roosevelt’s aims at Yalta?
Q. What were Churchill’s aims at Yalta?
A. February 1945.
A. A Soviet sphere of influence in eastern Europe; reparations to be paid by Germany; the Baltics to become satellite states; retention of USSR territory in Poland and no recognition of the Polish government in exile.
A. A deal with Stalin to defeat Japan; decolonisation after the war; quick American demilitarisation; self-determination for Poland; China, UK, USSR and USA to be ‘global policemen.’
A. Self-determination for Poland; protect British colonial interests; maintenance of the 1944 Percentages Agreement, with Soviet dominance of Romania and British dominance of Greece; contain the USSR.
Q. What was agreed about Poland at Yalta?
Q. The foundation of which international organisation was agreed upon at Yalta?
Q. What tensions existed between the three leaders at Yalta?
A. Territory would be taken from East Germany and given to Poland.
A. The United Nations.
A. Churchill and Stalin did not trust each other; Churchill felt that Roosevelt was too pro-Russian.
Q. When did the three leaders meet at Potsdam?
Q. Who represented the USA at Potsdam?
Q. After how many days at Potsdam was Churchill replaced by Attlee?
Q. Why did Stalin believe he had moral superiority over the USA and the UK?
A. 17 July 1945.
A. President Truman
A. 10
A. Soviet casualties were twenty times greater than American or British casualties.
Q. Why did Truman feel emboldened to take a stronger line against Stalin?
Q. What was agreed about Germany at the Potsdam Conference?
Q. Why did the three leaders fail to make a long-term plan at Potsdam?
A. The atomic bomb had almost been developed
A. Germany would be demilitarised; freedom of speech and the press would be restored; the USSR would receive reparations from its own zone and 25% from the Western zones; the Western powers would receive agricultural produce from the Soviet zone.
A. The leaders had conflicting priorities and Stalin refused to be intimidated by Truman.
Q. When did the USA develop its policy of ‘containment’?
Q. Why did the three leaders fail to make a long-term plan at Potsdam?
Q. Where was a pro-Soviet Polish government established?
A. March 1947
A. The leaders had conflicting priorities and Stalin refused to be intimidated by Truman
A. Lublin
Q. Why was there widespread support for socialism following WW2?
Q. Which name is given to Stalin’s strategy of breaking up anti-communist opposition?
Q. What happened in the government of Czechoslovakia during 1948?
A. Anger with the elites which had started the war; shortages and unemployment.
A. Salami tactics
A. The communists purged the non-communists.
Q. Who was Jan Masaryk?
Q. Which eastern European state did not become a satellite state of the USSR?
Q. Which organisation coordinated the activities of the USSR’s satellite states?
A. The pro-American Czech Foreign Minister who was founded dead beneath his window
A. Yugoslavia
A. Cominform
Q. When was the Long Telegram sent to the USA?
Q. Who was George Kennan?
Q. What did Kennan believe about peaceful relations between the USA and the USSR?
A. February 1946
A. A US diplomatic expert with experience in the USSR
A. That peaceful relations were unlikely
Q. When, where and by whom was the Iron Curtain speech made?
Q. How did Stalin respond to the Iron Curtain speech?
Q. When did the USA pledge support for the anti-communist forces in Greece?
Q. When was Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform?
A. March 1946, Fulton in Missouri, Winston Churchill
A. He gave an interview to Pravda in which he described the USA as a meddling colonial power
A. March 1947
A. June 1948
