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History Cold War Flashcards

1
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How many countries where in the grand alliance

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3

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What countries where in the grand alliance

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Britain
The soviet union
The USA

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In what year was the Grand Alliance created?

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1941

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When was the Tehran Conference?

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November/december 1943

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What where the agreements about Germany at the Tehran conference?

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USSR declared war on Japan after Germany defeated
USA and Britain agreed to invade

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When was the Yalta Conference?

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February 1945

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Who attended the Tehran Conference

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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin

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What was discussed at the Yalta conference

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Germany would be forced to pay reparations and demilitarised
Nazi control would be defeated

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At the Potsdam Conference, Germany was reduced in size and divided into occupied zones, controlled by:

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USA
USSR
Britain
France

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10
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Who attended the Yalta conference

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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin

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When was the Potsdam Conference?

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July-August 1945

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What agreements where made at the Potsdam conference

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Nazi party was banned
USSR receive 25% output from the 3 other split zones of Germany

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13
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What year did Germany get split in 2

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1949

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14
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Describe the different ideologies Followed by the USA and the USSR

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USA - capitalism (private enterprise)
USSR - Communism (state control)

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What did Churchill mean when he said an iron curtain divided Europe?

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The separation between West and East Europe, sharing opposite ideas (Capitalism, Communism)

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16
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Why were the long and Novikov telegrams important?

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17
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What was the truman doctrine?

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18
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What was cominform?

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What did cominform do?

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20
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What happened in the berlin airlift?

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21
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Give 2 consequences of the 1948-49 berlin crisis?

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22
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What is meant by an arms race?

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23
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Give 2 consequences of the Hungarian uprising

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24
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What did khrushchev mean by peaceful co-existence

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25
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Why was Berlin a source of tension between the superpowers?

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26
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Describe Khrushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum of 1958?

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27
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How did the Paris and Vienna Summits affect the USSR’s attitude towards Berlin?

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28
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Give 2 consequences of the establishment of the berlin wall

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29
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How did the Cuban missile crisis alter the course of the Cold war?

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30
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Why did the USSR end the Prague Spring?

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31
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How did other countries react to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia?

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32
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What was the Brezhnev doctrine?

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33
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What does detente mean

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34
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Name three treaties signed by the superpowers in the 1970s

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35
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How did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan change relations between the USA and the USSR?

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36
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What was US president Ronald Reagan’s attitude towards detente?

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37
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What was the SDI?

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38
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When did Mikhail Gorbachev become leader in the USSR?

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39
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What were perestroika and glasnot?

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40
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How did Gorbachev change soviet foreign policy?

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41
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Why did opposition to communism rise in Eastern Europe after 1988?

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42
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Why was there a political crisis in the USSR by 1990?

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43
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Describe the events that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union from 1990-91

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44
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When did germany surrender the 2nd world war?

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May 1945

45
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Give 2 consequences of the Tehran Conference

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USA and Britain would invade France in 1944

USSR would join USA and Britain in war against Japan After Nazis been defeated

46
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Give 2 consequences of the Yalta Conference

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Germany Divided into 4 zones

United Nations would replace the league of nations (anyone can join apart from some in USSR)

47
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Give 2 consequences of the Potsdam conference

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Germany Denazified
Germany made to pay reparations for WW2 in assets and labour

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