Cold War Consequences

Question 1

Tehran Conference

Answer 1

Wester Front Opened
Polish territory given to USSR
Churchill told her can’t invade Balkans

Question 2

Yalta Conference

Answer 2

Stalin wants Germany to pay higher reparations
Germany divided into 4 zones
Stalin agrees to free elections
Stalin wants territory further west of Poland

Question 3

Potsdam Conference

Answer 3

Stalin refuses free elections
Stalin not granted his reparations wishes
Churchill and Truman decide to ‘Get Tough’

Question 4

Iron Curtain Speech

Answer 4

Stalin saw it as provocative
Truman claims ‘buffer zone’ attempts to spread communism
Churchill suggests USA and UK alliance

Question 5

The Secret Telegrams

Answer 5

USSR see it as aggressive and suspicious
Influenced Truman’s policy of containment
Increased hostility

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

Clear showing of attempted division
Stalin set up Cominform
Containment

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

Economy boomed
Brain Drain Begins
Stalin accuses USA of being selfish

Question 8

Cominform

Answer 8

USSR have more control over Communism worldwide
Act of opposition to Marshall Plan

Question 9

Arms Race

Answer 9

Escalates into Crises
Increased rivalry and tension
Non-nuclear forces weakened to increase nuclear forces
Increased fear of MAD

Question 10

Berlin Blockade & Airlift

Answer 10

Formation of NATO
Act of aggression from USSR
Confirms division and increase rivalry

Question 11

Comecon

Answer 11

USSR control economy of Eastern Europe

Question 12

NATO

Answer 12

Warsaw Pact in 1955
Stalin sees it as attack rather than defence
Increases arms race

Question 13

Warsaw Pact

Answer 13

Intensifies arms race
Clear sign of two opposing sides
Significant role in Hungarian Uprising

Question 14

Hungarian Uprising

Answer 14

No Western intervention
Warning from USSR
20,000 Hungarian deaths

Question 15

Berlin Crisis

Answer 15

Stand-off at checkpoint Charlie
Peter Fechter and Conrad Schuman
Wall = Symbol of division
‘Ich Bin Ein Berliner’ Speech

Question 16

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 16

Embarrassment for Kennedy
Pushed Castro close to USSR
Removal of missiles from Cuba
Hotline
Test Ban Treaty
Krushchev Removed from power

Question 17

Czechoslovakia Crisis

Answer 17

Brezhnev Doctrine
USSR relations with ally (China) worsened due to use of force
No USA involvement due to Vietnam

Question 18

Detente

Answer 18

Improved international relations:
Outer Space Treaty - Join space mission

Decreased threat of MAD:
Helsinki accords & SALT I/II

Question 19

Collapse of Detente

Answer 19

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Carter Doctrine
Olympic Boycotts

Question 20

Ronald Reagan

Answer 20

Star Wars
Evil Empire Speech

Question 21

Gorbachev

Answer 21

Glasnost & Perestroika - Openness and Restructure
Improved Superpower Relations - Geneva and Reykjavik Summits

Question 22

End of the Cold War

Answer 22

Fall of the Berlin Wall
End of the Warsaw Pact