Co-operation Ends And Coldwar Begins Flashcards
Who were the “big three” at the Yalta conference in February 1945 and what was the aim of this conference
Britain - Winston Churchill
USA - Franklin D Roosevelt
USSR - Joseph Stalin
The aim was to agree on a post war settlement and decide what to do with Germany after it had been defeated
What was agreed at the Yalta conference?
-Eastern Europe would come under the influence of the USSR. However, it was also agreed that there would be democratic elections
-Germany should be divided into four zones at the end of the war. US
-Berlin would also be divided into four sections for the Allies.
-Half the $20 billion that would be collected from Germany, as
reparations, would go to Russia.
The eastern part of Poland would go to Russia so that Russia could build up her defences. Land would be taken from eastern Germany and given to Poland in compensation.
-The USSR would declare war on Japan in August 1945, three months after Germany’s surrender.
-A United Nations would be set up to promote world peace.
Who were the “big three” at the Potsdam conference in July 1945 and what was its main objective
Great Britain - Clement Attlee
USA - Harold Truman
USSR - Joseph Stalin
Put into action the post-war settlement agreed at Yalta
What agreements were reached at Potsdam
-How Germany was to be divided and occupied. Each power could take reparations from its own zone, although not so much as to endanger the lives of ordinary Germans.
-The USSR could also take some reparations from the British and US zones in return for providing supplies of food, fuel and raw materials.
-An Allied Control Council would be set up to coordinate the activities of the four zones.
When were the atomic bombs dropped and how did this effect international relations
Hiroshima 6th August 1945 killing 1/4 million people
Nagasaki 9th August 1945
Japan surrender 14th August 1945
-When Stalin realised that the US had the atomic bomb, he was furious that his allies had not shared the technology with him.
-He regarded the bombing of Hiroshima more as an act of
intimidation aimed at the Soviet Union than a way to force Japan to surrender.
-Stalin immediately ordered his own scientists to develop a Soviet bomb. The US and USSR were now involved in a war
