4 Impacts Of Wartime Conferences Flashcards
1.
Creation of a flashpoint in Germany- no long term future for Germany and split into 4 zones
2.
Tensions surrounding Eastern Europe-Poland
- Roosevelt if the Lublin govt was installed then yalta will fail, exposing ideological differences.
- self determination vs security
3.
Collapse of the grand alliance
- Truman=abrasive, Roosevelt= optimistic , sees the grand alliance as an international peace keeping bod, was too naive and u underestimated stalins need for security
No more 3 legged diplomatic coorperation through Truman’s hostility towards the su by drooping 2 atomic bombs, ahead in its nuclear monopoly and Stalin and Molotov tried not to be intimidated by it.
Ca= semblance of cooperation up to the Marshall plan where the USA still invited the ussr to the Paris peace agreement. Cooperation through the acc.
4.
Tensions surrounding Sovietisation
- buffer zone [perbch]
- 11 million members of the red army installed all over Eastern Europe
- Stalin less honoured to honour countries that were once nazified the right to free and fair elections, exposing differences and violate decisions made at conferences- failed to address suspicion and the foundations for a viable and non confrontational east and west.
Ca= Stalin obeyed to the percentages agreement where he had been given 10 percent of Greece so did not intervene in the Greek civil war, free elections in Czechoslovakian and romania
