Cold War - 1945 - 1949 Flashcards
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Yalta conference
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- ‘Big Three’ : Stalin , Roosevelt and Chruchill met to decide on a post-war agreement
- A lot of important agreements such as the division of Germany and Berlin into 4 parts and
- Countries liberated from nazi rule allowed to hold free elections
2
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Potsdam Conference - what happened?
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- Stalin had set up pro soviet ‘puppet’ state in Poland which went against what had been decided in potsdam
- New president truman openly displayed his dislike and was more suspicious of USSR and stalin.
- No real progress made since yalta, uncertainity on how to act on commitments made at yalta
- ’ new weapon of unusual destructive force ‘
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Potsdam Conference - significance
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- exposed first cracks in grand alliance as meeting was fraught with disagreements and quarrels
- combination of truman and stalin’s actions made usa more suspicious of ussr and hostility started to brew
- facilitated the transition from ally to foe
- bomb thing caused jealousy to brew and increased hostility
4
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Stalin’s actions in eastern europe
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- turned eastern europe into ‘buffer zone’
- ## imposed pro - soviet puppet governments on poland , hungary and finally czech in 1948
