Cold War Textbook Flashcards
When does WWII begin
1939
When did the grand alliance start and who did it comprise of?
Britain, USA, USSR
1941
When was the Tehran conference?
1943
When did Germany invade the USSR?
1941
When was Potsdam conference
1945
When was yalta conference
1945
When did US do first successful a bomb test
1945
When did the USA detonate atomic bombs over Japan
1945
When was the long telegram and who wrote it
1946 - Kennan
When was Novikov telegram
1946
When was iron curtain speech and where?
1946 - Missouri
When was Truman doctrine
1947
When was Marshall plan announced
1947
When was Cominform started
1947
When was a communist government introduced to Poland
1947
When was the Berlin blockade
1948
When was a communist government set up in Czechoslovakia
1948
When was nato set up?
1949
When was the federal republic of Germany set up and was it west or east
West - 1949
When was the German Democratic set up and was it west or east
East - 1949
When was Comecon set up
1949
When was Warsaw pact formed
1955
When was Hungarian uprising
1956
When was the Geneva summit
1959
When was the camp David summit
1959
When was the communist revolution in Cuba overthrowing the Batista regime?
1959
When was Berlin Wall built?
1961
When was the Vienna summit?
1961
When was the bay of pigs?
1961
When was the Vienna summit?
1961
When was the Cuban missile crisis?
1962
When was the limited test ban treaty?
1963
When did Kennedy visit Berlin
1963
Who gave Britain, USA and USSR the nickname the grand alliance
Churchill
When was VE Day
May 1945
Month and year of Tehran conference
Nov 1943
Month and year Hitler attacks USSR (reason for grand alliance forming)
June 1941
Month of yalta conference and year
Feb 1945
Month and year of Potsdam conference
July 1945
Month UDS drops atom bombs
August 1945
Month and year of the long telegram
Feb 1946
Month and year of iron curtain speech Churchill
March 1946
Month and year of Novikov telegram
November 1946
What 3 politicians are referred to as the big three
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
When did Roosevelt die
1945
When did Japan bomb pearl harbour
1941
Why was Roosevelt not very tough in negotiations with Stalin?
He wanted soviet support with the fight against Japan and he believed the only long term chance at peace would involve acceptance of the USSR
How strongly anti Stalin was Churchill?
Very strongly - conservative vs a communist = boom
Give an agreement involving the western front made at Tehran Nov 1943
USA + Britain would open second front by attacking Germany in Western Europe
To ease pressure on eastern front where soviets were suffering heavily
As German troops would have to be withdrawn from eastern front to western front to help fight
Give an agreement made at Tehran to do with Japan
Stalin would declare war against Japan and supply soviet troops to help USA win war against Japan
Only once war in Europe was over
Give 2 agreements made at Tehran to do with Germany
Germany should remain weak after the war and it should be forced to surrender unconditionally
Poland should get land from Germany
Give an agreement to do with the USSR and poland made at Tehran
USSR could keep the land it had taken from Poland in 1939
Give an agreement made in Tehran about an international body
An international body should be set up to settle disputes with negotiation rather than war - laying ground for future United Nations
Give one way the Tehran conference was important for international relations
Stalin was pleased as he had previously been concerned that the US/GB had been reluctant to open a second front, and was glad they had agreed to it
Churchill was less pleased as he had wanted to set up a front in the balkans instead of
By the yalta conference what 2 gains had the grant alliance made in the war
Second front was pushing Germans back to Berlin
Soviets had defeated the Germans in the Soviet Union and not controlled most of central and Eastern Europe
Give 3 agreement made at yalta to do with Germany
Germany would be split into 4 zones - each controlled by USA, GB, FR, USSR
Germany would pay 20 billion dollars in reparations - 50% to Soviets
Nazis banned and war criminals prosecuted
How much was Germany forced to pay in reparations (agreed at yalta)
20 billion dollars
What % of the reparations Germany would pay would go to the Soviets
50%
What was a concrete agreement about international bodies made at yalta
UN would be set up - first meeting on 25th April 1945
When would first meeting of UN be
25th April 1945
Give one disagreement at yalta
USA + Uk didn’t agree that all 16 soviet republics could get individual membership
How many soviet republics were there
16
Give 3 Soviet countries that were admitted into UN
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus
In yalta stalin agreed to join the war against Japan __months after the defeat of Germany
3
In yalta Stalin agreed that governments of countries in _____ Europe would be decided in ___ elections
Eastern
Free
Give the issue in the yalta conference
Poland - as Stalin expected the government to be communist when a ‘free election’ was started in the country but the US and British supported the non-communist London poles
Who were the London poles?
A group of politicians who left Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and formed a government-in-exile, first in Paris and then in London
When did Roosevelt die - month and year
April 1945
Who were new leaders before the Potsdam conference?
Harry S Truman + Clement Attlee
When did the USA test their atomic bomb?
The day after the Potsdam conference began
By what treaty was the UN created and when
Treaty of San Francisco in June 1945
How many members signed the UN treaty
51
What were the members of the security council upon the UN’s formation and what power did they have?
Veto power
US + USSR + France + Britain + China
Truman and Attlee were ___ to diplomatic discussions
New
