Cold War Europe

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

Stalin never trusted

1939- nazi soviet pact

March 1946 - Churchill iron curtain

Ideological war

Question 2

Reasons for colds war

Answer 2

Lack of common purpose

Different ideas about post war

Atomic warfare

Rise of ussr

Declaration of liberated Europe

Question 3

Conferences

Answer 3

Yalta (feb 1945)
Divide Germany

Potsdam (July 1945)
Reparations

Question 4

Cominform

Answer 4

90 million communist people

Question 5

Mass démobilisation

Answer 5

12 mill in 1945

3 mill in 1946

1,5 mill in 1947

Red army didn’t

Question 6

Greek crisis

Answer 6

First crisis between cap and com

Communist - national liberation front

Supplied by satellites stated

Question 7

Truman doctrine

Answer 7

Truman spoke on 12 March 1947

Assume British responsibilities

Policy of containment

$400 mill to Greece and turkey

Military advisor in Athens aug 1947

Question 8

Marshal plan

Answer 8

4 years from 1948

$400 mil

Satellite states not allowed( except Yugoslavia)

Organisation for Europe economic co-operation - $10 bill

20% more than 1948

Second industrial revolution

Question 9

Germany

Answer 9

West - German federal republic -1947

East - German Democratic Republic

Question 10

First berline crisis

Answer 10

1948-1949
20 June - Deutsche Mark
23 June - new east currency

Stalin closed all roads, railways, canals

318 days
2 mil tons for 2,5 mill people
4000 tones needed
13 000 tones supplied

Question 11

Second Berlin crisis

Answer 11

1953-1955
Berlin uprising 
Stalin died -13 March 1953
Nikita Khrushchev 
Déstalinisation and co-existence
Increase production with same pay
June 16 
Tanks open fire 
New course policy

Question 12

Third Berlin crisis

Answer 12

1958
Khrushchev demands

July 1957 - west want reunification’s

Nov 1958 - Khrushchev want west to leave Berlin

Question 13

Fourth Berlin crisis

Answer 13

1961 
Berlin Wall 
Aug 1961 <4000 people crossed 
Brain drain 
All but 12 of 80 crossing closed 
1961 wall build 
Concret symbol of Cold War

Question 14

NATO

Answer 14

April 1949
1948-Vandenberg resolution
Get real Eisenhower
- supreme commander of allied forces in Europe

Oct 1949 -USA - $1 nil to rearm
End 1949- nato had 3 Bill troops
Greece and turkey join 1952
West Germany join 1955

Question 15

Warsaw Pact

Answer 15

March 1955
Resist nato
Brinksmanship
1953 first hydrogen bomb

6 mill troops at any one time

Ended 1992 with NATO function change