Overview Flashcards
In what year of WW2 did the USA and USSR end up on the same side?
1941.
When was the Grand Alliance formed?
1941.
What was formed in 1941?
The Grand Alliance (also known as “the big three”)
Why were the USA and USSR not wholy friendly after WW2?
1) The USA lost money when the USSR turned Communist in 1917.
2) The USA was close with Britain, and relatives of the British royal family were killed in the Russian Revolution.
When had the USSR turned communist?
1917.
What was the purpose of the wartime conferences?
To ease tension within the Grand Alliance and ensure that cooperation continued into the future.
Why had tension developed within the Grand Alliance?
This tension had sprung from the absence of Hitler as a common enemy, leaving friction between communism and capitalism.
When was each of the Wartime conferences?
Tehran: 1943
Yalta: Feb 1945
Potsdam: July 1945
What is a superpower?
A country with significant financial and/or military and/or cultural influence on other countries.
Why were the USA and USSR the only superpowers in the world at the end of WW2?
They had succeeded in maintaining strong economies throughout the war by producing weapons and selling them to other (weaker) countries.
What happened between 1945 and 1948?
A cold war developed between the USA and the USSR.
When did the USSR form its satellite states?
1944-48.
When did the arms race begin?
1945 (same time the cold war did).
What took place in the 1960s?
A series of crises that meant the cold war was on a knife edge of becoming a real one.
What took place in the 1970s?
Détente.
