Unit 1 (CONTROVERSY) 1944-53?

Question 1

(Controversy)- Unit 1, name all the events in this topic from 1944-53?

Answer 1

WWII (1939-45)
Truman Doctrine was created (1947)
Marshall Plan (1946)
UN was created (1946)
Truman became president (1945)
Stalin died (3rd March 1953)
Korean War (June 1950- July 1953)
Berlin blockade (1948
US bombing Japan (1945)
Iron curtain speech (1946)
Conferences-Yalta and Potsdam (1945)

Question 2

what month and year was the Yalta conference?

Answer 2

February 1945

Question 3

what was the Truman Doctrine and when was it published?

Answer 3

1946

Question 4

When was the Berlin Blockade (month/year) and what was it?

Answer 4

June 1948, and it was where Stalin stopped supplying to the West, and removed any air support from the West ho was travelling their way in Berlin.

Question 5

When was the “A-bomb” dropped on Japan, and how did this increase tensions?

Answer 5

August 1945. The US dropped a A-bomb on Japan to end WWII. this increased tensions all throughout Europe, for example: Stalin threw even more paranoid about the US invading them, so created buffer zones in his sphere of influence.

Question 6

When did the USSR receive any nuclear weaponry?

Answer 6

1949- they created the A-bomb, which further increased tensions between both superpowers.

Question 7

Who were the main personalities between 1944-53?

Answer 7

Stalin, Truman, Churchill and Roosevelt.

Question 8

what are the 3 historical schools you need for the source essay?

Answer 8

Traditional- blaming the beginning of the CW on the USSR.
Revisionist- blaming it on the US.
Post- revisionist- looking at it from both perspectives, saying it was a miscommunication.

Question 9

name 3 reasons how it could be suggested that the emergence of the CW was from a traditional viewpoint?

Answer 9

Stalin's personality.
Korean War (1950-53)

Question 10

name 3 reasons how it could be suggested that the emergence of the CW was from a revisionist viewpoint?

Answer 10

Truman Doctrine (1946)
Marshall Plan (1947)
Creation of the UN (1946)

Question 11

What was the Marshall Plan and when was it introduced?

Answer 11

JUNE 1947. it was a US policy to fund any country under threat from the USSR in eastern europe and also to fund the USSR as they didnt have any economic funding.

Question 12

What 3 conferences are there and years of them?

Answer 12

Yalta, Potsdam (1945) and Tehran (1943)

Question 13

what did the conferences show?

Answer 13

they showed that the superpowers would never get along, it was the beginning of the Cold War.

Question 14

when was the chinese revolution?

Answer 14

September 1949

Question 15

When did Communism/USSR start to influence in Europe and which countries?

Answer 15

Czechoslovkia and Hungary (February 1948)

Question 16

what was Stalin’s foreign policy seen as, by himself and also the West?

Answer 16

he was seen as to create buffer zones in order to protect the USSR from further invasion from the West.
whereas, the West saw this as an aggressive policy, spreading their influence into Europe.

Question 17

why did the Cold War enter the Far- East? and where?

Answer 17

it entered into Korea and Japan. it went there for trade and also to protect Japan from becoming a communist state.

Question 18

when was Truman president?

Answer 18

1945-52/53.

Question 19

what and when was the “Iron Curtain” speech?

Answer 19

March 1946- held in Boston. it was published by Churchill to say Europe had been split into 2.