1.1 Early Tensions Between East And West

Question 1

What year was Tehran

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

What was agreed at Tehran

Answer 2

Open a secind front against Germany
Stalin agreed to help USA with Japan
Stalin can have the land he seized from Poland

Question 3

What year was Yalta

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

What agreements were made at Yalta

Answer 4

Germany was going to be split into four zones
Germany to pay 20 billion in reparations, half will go to the soviet union
Stalin wasn’t happy with free elections in Poland
Stalin believed he had the poorest section of Germany

Question 5

What year was Potsdam

Answer 5

1945

Question 6

Why was there a difference in Potsdam to all the other conferences

Answer 6

Roosevelt died - Truman replaced him

Chirchil lost election - replaced by Atlee

Question 7

What agreements were made at Potsdam

Answer 7

Germany and Berlin were split into four zones

Soviets wanted Germany to pay heavy reparations but Truman disagreed as it would ruin economy

It was agreed that reparations would be taken individually from each zone but because the Soviets had the poorest they would get 1/4 of each other zone

Question 8

What year did the USA release the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Answer 8

1945

Question 9

Why did the USA use their A bomb if they could’ve won the war anyway

Answer 9

As a barganing chip in future negotiations with the Soviet Union

Question 10

What was the reaction of the Soviets of the US using the atomic bomb

Answer 10

This was completely oppisite to what the US thought it would do. It made Stalin more determined to secure the Soviet controlled countries he already had

They created there own Atomic bonb 4 years later in 1949

Tensions were high but both knew they couldn’t bomb eachother

Question 11

What year was the long telegram

Answer 11

1946

Question 12

What did the long telegram say

Answer 12

George Kennan said the USSR wanted to destroy capitalism and saw everyone outside communism as a threat.

However would back down if they were faced with strong resistance

Question 13

What year was the Novikov telegram

Answer 13

1946

Question 14

What did the Novikov telegram say

Answer 14

This said that the US wanted to use their massive military power to dominate the world.

Since the death of Roosevelt did not want to co-operate with the Soviets

Question 15

What did the two telegrams in 1946 show

Answer 15

This shows that they both had no trust for eachother amd wanted to destroy eachother.

Question 16

When was the creation of the soviet satelite states

Answer 16

Between 1945 -1949

Question 17

What was the soviet satlite states

Answer 17

This was set up by the Soviets to keep the land they freed from the Nazis by making them join this satellite states so they can put a pro communist government in charge.

Question 18

What were US-Soviet tensions like after the creation of Soviet satellite states

Answer 18

Tensions increased as Truman saw this as an attempt to spread communism