Cold war

Question 1

Tehran

Answer 1

Agreed about sphere of influence after the war

Western allies agreed to launch attack on Germany from the west (D-Day)

Question 2

Tehran - signs of tensions

Answer 2

Stalin thought the western allies had deliberately delayed D-Day

Question 3

Yalta

Answer 3

Mostly agreements to do with what happens after the war Russia to help US defeat Japan work for ‘democracy’ in Europe set up UN

Question 4

Yalta - signs of tension

Answer 4

Disagreed about definition of democracy

Question 5

Potsdam

Answer 5

Mostly agreements to do with Germany ban nazi party and prosecute war criminal reduce size of Germany divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones (USSR, Britain, France,USA)

Question 6

Potsdam - signs of tension

Answer 6

Different leaders – Attlee 
and Truman (Truman did 
not tell Stalin about A 
Bombs on Hiroshima and 
Nagasaki)

Question 7

USA capitalist or communist?

Answer 7

Capitalist

Question 8

USSR capitalist or communist?

Answer 8

Communist

Question 9

Attitudes of Stalin, Truman and Churchill

Answer 9

Stalin was paranoid about protecting the USSR and wanted to create a
‘buffer zone’ forced countries in Eastern Europe to become communist.
Truman was determined to prevent Communism spreading in the West.
Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech in America and this led to further
fears of the threat of Communism

Question 10

The impact on US-Soviet relations of the development of the atomic
bomb, the Long and Novikov telegrams and the creation of Soviet satellite
states in Eastern Europe

Answer 10

The USA first used a nuclear bomb in Japan in 1945. The USSR were very
concerned by this and by 1949 they developed their own. Large numbers
of weapons were developed throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Two telegrams from each ambassador (Long and Novikov telegrams)
showed that both sides increasingly viewed each other as enemies.
Stalin forced countries in Eastern Europe to become communist between
1946 and 1948: Elections were rigged. e.g.In Poland, the people were
anti-communist and anti-Soviet, yet the communists won a landslide in
the elections of 1947 Stalin set up COMINFORM in 1947. Its job was to keep the activities
of the communist parties in Europe in line with the Soviet Union.
In 1949 Stalin created COMECON to control the economies of Eastern
Europe countries under Soviet influence.