🧩| Chapter 4

Question 1

When did the Cold War happen?

Answer 1

mid-1940s to 1990s

Question 2

What is a cold war?

Answer 2

More tension between countries than fighting; a stand-off.

Question 3

Why did USSR and US form an alliance?

Answer 3

June 1941 - Germans invade USSR

Dec 1941 - US Pearl Harbour bombed by Japan

Question 4

Who did the Grand Alliance consist of?

Answer 4

Britain, US, USSR

Question 5

Differences between US and USSR

Answer 5

US: capitalist democracy | USSR: communist dictatorship

US: voting rights | USSR: no opposition

US: multi-party elections | USSR: one-party state

Question 6

Similarity between US and USSR

Answer 6

They both were against the Axis powers.

Question 7

When did FDR die?

Answer 7

Early 1945 - Truman takes office

Question 8

How were Truman and FDR different?

Answer 8

FDR supported the Soviet Union, whereas Truman disliked USSR’s communist ideas and Stalin’s “spheres of influence”

Question 9

When was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 9

Nov. 1943

Question 10

What were the agreements made in Tehran in Nov 1943?

Answer 10

1) Make Germany surrender
2) Split Germany after the war (no method discussed)
3) Poland to receive German land
(originally, USSR would give land back to Poland,
but Stalin wanted to keep the USSR’s territory there)

3) International body for negotiation should be made
4) Open up a Second Front in West for allies,
to ease tensions in the Eastern front at USSR.
6) USSR to declare war on Japan
and therefore help USA - only once WWII was over

Question 11

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 11

Feb 1945

Question 12

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 12

Jul-Aug 1945

Question 13

Where was Tehran situated?

Answer 13

In Iran (1943)

Question 14

Where was Yalta situated?

Answer 14

In a Russian town in the Crimea (1945)

Question 15

Where was Potsdam situated?

Answer 15

On the border of Berlin (1945)

Question 16

What is D-Day?

Answer 16

The day that USA and Britain would attack Germany from the west,
forcing Germany to redirect troops from USSR back to Germany

Question 17

Results of Tehran Conference (Nov 1943)

Answer 17

• Allies were on the winning side of WWII so far
• D-Day was successful and Germany was pushed back
• Soviet Union also pushed back Germany and gained territory in most of Eastern Europe

Question 18

What were the agreements made in Yalta in Feb. 1945?

Answer 18

1) USSR should keep territory in Eastern Europe
as a buffer zone between USSR and Germany
2) UN’s first meeting agreed
Only Russia, Belarus & Ukraine allowed to attend
as members of Soviet Union

3) DIVIDE Germany into four zones
4) DEMILITARIZE German troops
5) DE-NAZIFY Germany and prosecuting war criminals
6) Make Germany pay reparations

7) Stalin promised that countries in his sphere of influence will have free, fair elections (even though this was a lie)

Question 19

Results of Yalta Conference (Feb 1945)

Answer 19

• territory given to Poland from Germany

* Soviet Union’s “spheres of influence” in East Europe officially became part of the Soviet Union

Question 20

When did Germany surrender in WWII?

Answer 20

Early 1945s

FDR also died right before Germany surrendered

Question 21

How did the Big Three change in the summer of 1945?

Answer 21

• FDR died right before Germany surrendered; Truman takes his place
• Churchill loses election and so Attlee became the new PM

Question 22

When did USA launch the atomic bomb on Japan?

Answer 22

6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945

Japan surrenders shortly after

Question 23

What were the agreements made in Potsdam in Jul-Aug 1945?

Answer 23

1) Split Berlin into four zones like how Germany was
2) Germany was to pay less reparations
3) Germany’s economy ran as a whole though it was split
4) De-nazify and democratize Germany
5) USSR gets 1/4 of the reparations from each zone