cold war Flashcards
how was the cold war fought?
hint - race
arms race
space race
propaganda
sport
espionage
give the 4 reasons for cold war including details
aims - russia had been invaded in previous wars so they wanted to prevent this from ever happening again, usa wanted to ensure freedom and democracy
resentment - britain and ysa tried to crush the bolshevik, stalin made a deal with nazi gremany
beliefs/ideas - stalin belidved the west is trying to crush communism, the west believed stalin was encoraging communist revolutions, they are both militant and expansionist
end of ww2 - usa didnt inform ussr of atmoic bomb development, they no lonher had a common enemy
when was the grand alliance formed?
december 1941 - britain, usa, ussr
name the first conference and details
tehran
november 1943
stalin roosevelt churchill
usa and britain would open a second front in europe, stalin declares war against japan
usa and britain tension (british colonialism threat to world peace), churchill wanted second front in the balkans
name the second conference and give details
yalta - february 1945
stalin roosevelt churchill
germany split in 4 zones, germany pay $20 billion reparations, UN set up in 25th april 1945
stalin wanted 16 soviet republics to be given individual membership, stalin expected polands electiosn to bring about communist government
name third conference and give details
july-august 1945 - potsdam
truman attlee stalin
berlin split in 4, each country takes reparations from each zone
truman objected to soviet control over liberated nations, truman objected to borders of poland, lack of trust between truman and stalin
list the ussr leaders in order with dates
stalin 1929-53
krushchev 1953-64
brezhnev 1964-82
andropov 1982-84
chernenko 1984-85
gorbachev 1985-91
list the usa leaders in order with dates
roosevelt 1933-45
truman 1945-52
eisenhower 1953-60
kennedy 1961-63
johnson 1963-68
nixon 1969-74
ford 1974-78
carter 1977-80
reagan 1981-88
bush 1989-96
list reasons for the soviet takeover
memory of the world wars - eastern european countries had been hostile
percentages deal
strategic importance of poland
security
soviet expansionism
when did the iron curtain speech take place
5th march 1946
churchill (no longer prime minster)
missouri
list 6 satellite states
bulgaria
czechoslovakia
hungary
east germany
romania
poland
what is the truman doctrine and what is its significance
12th march 1947 truman delivers speech
$400 million economic aid to greece and turkey (civil war)
america promising to help any country against communism
ends isolationism and introduces containment
communism fully established as the enemy
explain marshall aid
june 1947 - george marshall (secretary of state) speech on how the aid would be provided
1948-52 - $12.7billion given
took until 1950s for the full effect to take place
eastern european countries did not benefit though
tempted tito (yugoslavia) to want marshall aid
explain cominform
cmmunist information bureau set up 22nd september1947
communist parties of europe
stalin controlled and directed governments of the satellite states - spread propaganda
increases his control - shows off dominance to usa
explain comecon
council for mutual economic assistance
25th january 1949
provided aid for communist countries - stalin version of marshall aid
5 year plans
8 members
causes of the berlin blockade
cold war so far
aims for germany and berlin
bizonia
aid
new currency
when did the berlin blockade take place
june 1948
blocks road, rails and canals to stop entry and exit to east germany
what was operation vittles
11 months food and supplies were flown into berlin
1 1/2 million tonnes were carried
list the consequences of the berlin blockade
cold war - 9th may 1949
arms race
nato & warsaw pact
stalins threat to berlin and takeover of czechoslovakia meant 12 countries started nato in april 1949
german federal republic joined nto in may 1955 - ussr forms an equivalent
east & west germany
23rd may 1949 trizonia becomes federal republic of germany
october 1949 german democrat republic formed
list causes of the hungarian uprising and their impact
hungary after ww2 - lack of democracy, hungarian people were not listened to
impact of soviet rule - dictatorial rule, lack of democracy
rule of rakosi - decreases popularity
de-stalinisation - destalinisation provided false hopes
list key dates of the hungarian uprising
all 1956
23rd october - students hold demonstrations
24th october - street fights
25th october - 300 man down from machine gun fire
27th october - students bodies are found
28th october - freedom fighters control budapest
29th october - ussr leave budapest
1st november - soviet troops return to hungary
4th november - uprising crushed
list consequences of the hungarian uprising
many hungarians fled
communist leadership in the country
usa and britain dont intervene
ed sullivan raises $6 million by 1957
worse relations between ussr and the west
when did the refugee crisis take place
1949 to 1958
by 1958 3 million east germans moved to the west
explain krushchevs berlin ultimatum
november 1958 - western countries should recognise east germany as a separate country
berlin should be demilitarised
berlin should become a free city
6 months or khrushchev would hand over control of all routes to east germany
west was outraged
explain the geneva summit
may 1959
foreign ministers
proposals for how berlin shoudl be run
explain the camp david summit
september 1959
eisenhower and khrushchev meet face to face for the first time
withdraw berlin ultimatum
better relations
explain the paris summit
may 1960
u2 spy plane shot down
eisenhower refused to apologise
khrushchev walks out
explain vienna summit
june 1961
kennedy meets khrushchev
kennedy damaged reputation from bay of pigs
khrushchev renewed the berlin ultimatum