Cold War Confrencea Flashcards
When was tehran conference
Nov 1943
What was tehran conference
Big three/grand alliance planning strategy to win war
Agreements of tehran conference (4)
USA & Britain open secind front (launch attack on Germany from western Europe)
Stalin declare war on Japan after beat Germany
Poland to be guven land from Germany
International body to solve problems formed called United Nations (UN)
Tehran conference disagreements (2)
Stalin suspicious of west (thought the deliberatly delayed opening second front to weaken USSR)
Roosavelt sometimes view British colonialism as worse than USSR
When was Yalte conference
Feb 1945
What was situation before yalta conference (2)
Second front already launched (USA & Brittish pushign Germans back who were defeated by USSR)
USSR controlled most central & eastern Europe with stalin keep this territory as buffer zone to future German invasion
What was Yalta conference
Second meeting discuss winning war & post war Europe
Agreements Yalta conference Germany (4)
Germany split to 4 zones each controlled by different power (Britain/USA/France/USSR)
Germany to pay $20 billion in reperations (half to USSR)
Nazis banned
War crimanals persecuted
Yalta conference agrrements (3)
Stalin help USA v Japan three months later after German defeat
Stalin agree future countries in eastern europe will have free elections
Yalta conference Poland (5)
Hard decide future of Poland
Agreed return Poland borders to position were in 1921 (USSR significant gains)
Poland to have free elections:
Stalin expect elections bring pro communist gov
Britain support non-communist london poles
When was first UN meeting
25th april 1945
Who was allowed join UN (2)
All countries could join
USA & France not agree all soviet states should get individual membership but Russia, Ukraine & Belarus admitted
When was potsdam conference
July-Aug 1945
Change in people potsdam conference (2)
Roosavelt die April 1945, replaced by Harry S. Truman
Churchill & Conservative party lost 1945 general election, replaced by labour prime minister Clement Attlee
Potsdam conference other world events (4)
USA Scientists successfully make atomic bomb (successful test day after conference)
UN create treaty of Sanfransisco Jan 1945:
51 members sign (e.g. USA/USSR/France/Britain/China permenant members)
People on council can veto resolutions
Poysdam conference agreements (3)
Berlin divided to 4 zones controlled on different countries based inside soviet Germany
Soviets want Germany pay heavy reperations but truman concerned how this makes German economic recovery harder & agrees each administering country take reperations from own zone
Soviets had poorest zone allowed take 1/4 industrial equipment from other zones
Potsdam disagreements
Not agree on gov in eastern Europe:
Truman object soviets controlling countries they liberated from Nazi rule
Truman saw red army as occupational
But to avoud another war did nothing
Truman object to agreements with Poland & previously agreed borders, want gov with less communist influence
