Personalities blame Flashcards
1
Q
Soviet leadership mistrust
A
caused bad co-operation leading to operation paperclip acquisition of 1,500 German scientists to deny SU, Molotov walking out on Marshall plan calling it facizing
2
Q
Truman’s hatred of communism
A
Iron fist approach in E.Europe also born out of political insecurity
3
Q
FDR Yalta negotiation
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FDR didn’t want to negotiate European and trusting of Stalin. Speech before Yalta ‘Stalin doesn’t want anything but security […] he wouldn’t annex anything’,
4
Q
Churchill Yalta negotiation
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Churchill had to make 1944 Moscow ‘percentages deal’, ‘Poor Neville Chamberlain [..] he was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong’.
5
Q
How did west react to E.Europe expansion
A
As a betrayal after Yalta negotiation
