Origins Of The Cold War: Big Three War Aims

Question 1

Us: Trade

Answer 1

• make the world one large free trade area:
• establish democratic states
• no tariffs of economic nationalism
• decolonisation
• controlled by UN and the superpowers

Question 2

US:Security

Answer 2

Improve security after Pearl Harbour:
- chain of basses across the pacific and Atlantic oceans
- This also gave the US access to raw materials and markets around f Western Europe and Asia

Question 3

USSR

Answer 3

Set up friendly regimes through fully/ partial communist governments and reparations
- wanted to give Poland annexed land from Nazi territories and reparations

Envisioned a post war Europe with 3 different areas
- direct soviet control: Poland, Romania,Bulgaria and part of Germany
- Intermediate zones - neither fully communist or capitalist; power would be shared with liberals, moderate socialist and peasant parties
- non communist Western Europe - shows allies that USSR was not interested in a global revolution

Question 4

UK

Answer 4

Maintain status as a great power
- keep its empire
- alarmed by spread of soviet influence in Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean - disrupt trade and control
- wanted a democratic government in Warsaw