Cold War - A Flashcards
(11 cards)
impact and date date - operation Barbarossa
1941
meant that USSR and UK + USA had a common enemy -> formation of wartime alliance and alleviation (somewhat) of ideological tensions
lead to Churchill sending 2250 tanks + 1800 aircraft to USSR - wanted to gain their support but still didn’t like Stalin
Nazi Soviet Pact - impact etc.
1939 - signing of a non aggression treaty with agreement to divide Poland and Baltic states
created tension with west as UK and France had hoped to gain USSR support
caused by Stalins paranoia (ideological) and Munich appeasement 1938
Bolshevik revolution - consequences + impact
Lenin stated need for worldwide revolution + establishment of the proletariat dictatorship
beginning of ideological expansionism + opposition to the USA and capitalism
Stalin’s purges - causes + consequences
81/103 generals killed
condemned by western world, lead to Keanan’s long telegram which informed Truman’s containment policy
WW1 - impact + consequences
USSR withdrew from war due to revolution and refused to repay debts to USA - hostility
Russia not invited to join League of Nations 1919
Russian civil war 1917-1922
western powers interventionism - fought against Bolsheviks which lead to tension when they gained full power
influenced suspicion of western intervention + desire to dismantle USSR - Stalin’s paranoia
no diplomatic relations between USSR and USA until 1933
why did the issue of the second front create tensions?
stalin wanted it 1941, planned for 1942 but delayed because of dieppe raid failure, and Churchill wanted to continue work in Italy
stalin demanded it at Tehran 1943, due to high soviet death toll, and west planned it for may 1944
stalin believed that the west were trying to undermine/ weaken USSR - west believed stalin was unreasonable (USA supplied 10 mill tonnes through lend-lease)
Tehran conference - agreements + issues
1943
western front - tensions over when, stalin upset
Poland - stalin wanted occupation of Poland, resistance from London Poles
USSR to help USA in war against Japan
USSR to occupy Poland
Anglo - American invasion set for 1944
Yalta conference - agreements and issues
stalin wanted soviet control of EE and had taken control of Warsaw brutally - tension with UK
agreed to move Poland border, joint London + Lublin government and free elections in EE
Germany and Berlin to be divided - $20 billion reparations from Germany to USSR
formation of the UN
Potsdam conference
1945
New leadership = tension - Truman less experienced but more suspicious
demanded that stalin stick to agreements
US atom bomb test successful
nature of USSR liberation of EE
wanted soviet compliant governments - reversal of agreements made at Yalta
Poland - brutal takeover in 1944 + over 15mill Poles sent to Gulags
Czechoslovakia - opposition made illegal, treaty of friendship 1943, communist government despite 10% popular vote
Romania - forced appointment of a communist MP
