Chapter 1 (1945)

Question 1

Date of the Yalta conference

Answer 1

February 1945

Question 2

Date of the Potsdam conference

Answer 2

July-August 1945

Question 3

Impacts of WW2 on USA

Answer 3

Loss less than 2% of loss inflicted on USSR, economically benefitted

Question 4

Impacts of WW2 on USSR

Answer 4

70,000 villages destroyed, fought on Russian soil, economy and infrastructure destroyed

Question 5

Percentage of the world’s goods and services produced by the USA after WW2

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

Number of Russians killed in WW2

Answer 6

Around 25 million

Question 7

Number of Americans killed in WW2

Answer 7

300,000

Question 8

USA + Britain: what they wanted at Yalta

Answer 8

Rebuild Germany, national self-determination, collective security by UN, no spheres of influence

Question 9

USSR: what they wanted at Yalta

Answer 9

Make Germany weak, spheres for security, Poland as a buffer zone

Question 10

Meant that they could put their ideological differences aside at Yalta

Answer 10

Fighting a common enemy

Question 11

Main agreements made at the Yalta Conference

Answer 11

Division of Germany and Berlin, formation of UN, Polish border changes, Declaration on Liberated Europe

Question 12

Leaders at Yalta Conference

Answer 12

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill

Question 13

Years of the Grand Alliance

Answer 13

1941-45

Question 14

Leaders at the Potsdam Conference

Answer 14

Stalin, Truman, Atlee

Question 15

Potsdam: 4 ‘Ds’ for Germany

Answer 15

Division, demilitarisation, denazification, decentralisation

Question 16

Main agreements at Potsdam

Answer 16

Germany (4 ‘ds’), Polish borders confirmed, reparations

Question 17

Potsdam: why is the USSR unhappy

Answer 17

Do not get as many reparations as they want

Question 18

Truman’s attitude at Potsdam

Answer 18

He adopts an aggressive and bullish attitude, confrontational towards Stalin rather than cooperating

Question 19

Potsdam: why Truman behaves more aggressively

Answer 19

The USA have the atomic bomb, felt more confident and powerful

Question 20

Potsdam: one reason why Truman behaves differently to Roosevelt

Answer 20

He is inexperienced at foreign policy

Question 21

Potsdam: what was Stalin’s priority

Answer 21

Soviet security, wanted a buffer zone against the west

Question 22

Potsdam: what did Stalin break

Answer 22

The Declaration on Liberated Europe = installed Lublin Poles in Poland

Question 23

Why was there tension between the USSR and the West during WW2?

Answer 23

The West’s failure to put up a second front, the USSR’s failure to help the Poles during the Warsaw Uprising