Break down of the Grand Alliance; Dates Flashcards
Dumbarton Oaks
1994; agree to make general assembly of all states & security council of US, UK, USSR, France & China
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
August 1945
Moscow conference of Foreign ministers
Soviets agree to found UN Atomic Energy Commission (rules on nuclear weapons proposed by US, UK & Canada) but want it to report to security council. Conflict arises over whether vetoes can be used (USSR wants - US doens’t)
SED
1946; formed in brutal merger between SPD & KPD at Stalin’s command
US stop Soviet reparations
stop until a whole German economic plan was devised rather than zonal - want self sufficient zones along with UK
Majority of Axis peace treaties completed
1947 (bar Austria & Germany).
US forced to agree to harsh Italian treaty
USSR wanted to conclude East European treaties quickly to get reparations & remove UK/US influence from ACCs
Bizonia
January 1947
US & UK German zones merge in order to ‘creater trade surplus & pay Soviet reparations’
Iron Curtain Speech
March 1964
Churchill says USSR expansionist. Stalin says he’s mad
Yugoslavia
1945
Become communist independent of Soviet help
Bulgaria
1946
communist win election & opposition liquidated
Poland
1947
Rigged elections.
Gomulka removed later (1947) as too independent
Romania
1947
Rigged elections (would have won anyway)
King abdicates
Czechoslovakia
1948
initially allowed free elections. banned from accepting marshall aid & coup
Hungary
1948 (merger) 1949 (dictatorship)
opposition leader arrested & party merger
Long Telegram
1946
Soviet ambassador Kennan calls communists agressive
