Cold war

Question 1

Why did the usa didn’t trust the ussr?

Answer 1

• communisim threatened western values
• dislike stalins dicatorship which leadd to many deaths+ purges in 1930s
• stalin had signed the nazi-societ paCt and divided poland

Question 2

Why didn’t the ussr trust the us?

Answer 2

• communists saw capitalism as evil because the rich prospered at the expense of the poor
• 1918-1919 western states helped the whites fight against communism +churchil sent british troops
• in 1919 allies gave rusdian lands to other countries including poland

Question 3

When was the yalta conference?

Answer 3

Febuary 1945 ( roosevelt, stalin, churchil)

Question 4

What decisions where made in yalta?

Answer 4

Germany defeated and disarmed

• split into 4 zones of occupatipn
• pay reparations
• free elections in eastern europe
• eastern frontier of poland returned to pre 1921 position
• ussr was to join war against japan
• UN to be set up
• FRG GDR created

Question 5

When was potsdam?

Answer 5

July 1945

Truman stalin churchill (atlee)

Question 6

What decisions where made at potsdam?

Answer 6

• details of the zones of occupation
• nazi party banned leaders tried as war criminals
• germans living in other countries had to return tl germany
• reparations- each power collected industrial equipment from it’s zone
• poland’s western boundary was settled

Question 7

Iron curtain speech

Answer 7

March 1946 
-speech at missouri
-declared that europe was divided into two zones 
           West: free democratic
 East: communist

Question 8

Truman doctrine

Answer 8

Usa would help europe to stop the expansion of communism
-domino theory
Economic & military aid
Speech in 1947
Cominform

Question 9

Marshall plan

Answer 9

Usa would use wealth to help europe prosper and recover
$17 billion
1947

Question 10

Cominform

Answer 10

October 1947

Stalin forbade communist countries to accept marshall aid

Question 11

Berlin blockade

Answer 11

1948 stalin closed all rail & road links to berlin.

• 11 monthhs
• 274000 flights deligered (4000 tonnes x day)
• NATO WARSAW PACT

Question 12

Nato

Answer 12

1949
North atlantic treaty organisation
Deffensive alliance

Question 13

Warsaw pact

Answer 13

Like nato, for communists

Question 14

What happened in 1941?

Answer 14

Usa ussr and britain joined to fight hitler

Question 15

What happened between 1950-1953

Answer 15

Korean war

Question 16

June - september 1950

Answer 16

North korea attack, south forced back to the area around pusan

Question 17

September-november

Answer 17

Macarthur drove back the north korean troops and advanced almost to the chinese border

Question 18

November 1951-1953

Answer 18

Un counter attack drove the north joerans and chinese back yo the 38th parallel

Question 19

1953

Answer 19

Armnistice was signed at panmunjom

Question 20

1953

Answer 20

Stalin dies
Nikita krushchev new leader
Destalinasation

Question 21

Pesceful coexistance 1950s

Answer 21

There didn’t need to be a war eith the west. Tbe vapitalist system would eventually triunoh bc it was superior

Question 22

-why hungariands opposed soviet control

Answer 22

censorship
Secret police
Patriotism
Religion
Soviet troops 
Standard of living