1.1 Early Tensions Between East N Flashcards
When was the Tehran conferance?
November 1943
When was the yalta conferance?
Febuary 1945
When was the Potsdam conferance?
July-August 1945
What were the four agreements made in Tehran
- UK and USA would create a second front
- Stalin would delcare war V Japan once the European war was over
- no agreement on Germany apart from they should remain weak after the war
- Poland would get land from Germany but the soviets would keep the land they took from Poland
What was the effect of the Tehran conferance on relations?
- Soviots thought the west were delaying the second front to weaken the soviots
- there were tensions between Churchill and Rossevelt over British “colonialism”
What were the 5 agreements of Yalta?
- germany would be split up into 4 zones
- Germany would pay 20 billion on reparations
- united nations would be set up
- Stalin agrees to jojn the war in Japan
- Stalin agrees that the goverments of Eastern Europe would be decided in free elections
(Poland was difficult to solve)
What had changed going into the Potsdam conferance?(3anwers)
New western leaders: Truman and Attlee
- Germany have surrendered(no common enemy)
- USA successfully test the atom bomb one day after the conferance begins
What were the three agreements in the Potsdam conferance?
- Germany would be divided into 4 zones but would have one economy
- Berlin divided into 4 zones
- stalin can take 1/4 of industrial equipment from other zones because his zone was the poorest
How did Truman worsen relations with Stalin
- he was very anti communist and objected to the soviet control over East Europe
- Truman objected to the Poland goverment that was agreed tp because he wanted a goverment with less soviot influence.
What was the result of the creation of the atom bomb and its use in Japan for soviet-USA relations?
- stalin was more determined to to make the soviet union secure
- Stalin distrusted the USA for not telling him
- the soviets work to create the bomb
- an increase in global tensions
What did the Novikov telegram tell stalin?
- the USA wanted to use their military power to dominate the world
- since roosevelt’s death they no longer wated to coo-operate with the soviots and their people would support a war
What did Kennan’s long telegram tell the USA?
-Stalin wanted to see the destruction of capitalism and Stalin felt the world was trying to destroy communism
However with resistance he would back down
When was Churchill’s iron curtain speech?
March 1946
What was Trumans evidence that Stalin wanted to spread communism
The satellite states:
-czech Feb 1948
Hungary. may 1949
Consequences of Tehran plan
P1: stalin will invade Japan
P2: second front
