Start Of The Cold War

Question 0

Potsdam Conference Changes

Answer 0

Stalin was in Eastern Europe
Truman was the new presidents
America had dropped the atomic bomb - withheld from Stalin
Attlee became PM halfway through the conference

Question 1

Yalta Conference

Answer 1

Stalin enters war on Japan and all three start UN
Germany is split into 4 zones as well as Berlin
Nazi war criminals to be hunted
Free elections for captured countries
Eastern Europe a soviet “sphere of influence”
Didn’t agree on Polish borders - Stalin wants them to move into Germany

Question 2

Potsdam Conference

Answer 2

Disagreed over crippling Germany
Disagreed over reparations for Stalin
Disagreed over Stalin’s ideas of a takeover in Eastern Europe

Question 3

Cominform

Answer 3

Coordinated (controlled) communist parties and countries in the eastern bloc
Set up in 1947

Question 4

Greece

Answer 4

British helped monarchists beat communists in Greece in 1945
Stalin complains to UN and, when set back, tries to forcibly take Greece for the communists
Truman steps in to support the monarchists
Weak royalist government remains

Question 5

Czechoslovakia

Answer 5

Soviets take over after the war
Anti-soviet leaders killed
Causes congress to accept the Marshall plan
Stalin forbids eastern bloc to accept money from US

Question 6

Berlin Blockade reasons

Answer 6

Western allies had joined their sectors together and reformed the west German currency - Stalin wants to stamp his mark on Berlin instead
Truman doctrine and Marshall plan threatens his eastern bloc

Question 7

Berlin Blockade

Answer 7

Stalin blockades the city following unification of west Germany
US couldn’t barge in or it would be seen as an act of war
Americans begin to airlift supplies into West Berlin as do the allies
Stalin reopened communications in May 1949

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Founded after the Berlin blockade in 1949