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Cold war revision Flashcards

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What was the Yalta Conference?

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Germany divided into 4 zones and free elections between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

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What are the causes of the cold war?

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  • Lack of a mutual agreement on the reunification of Germany
  • Soviets dominated Eastern Europe
  • Mutual suspicion between the US and Soviet Union
  • The Arms and Space Race (russia wins but we get to the moon first)
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What is the Potsdam Conference?

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conference to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.

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What are salami tactics?

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To slowly cut away opposition to Communism

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What is the Truman Doctrine?

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A pledge to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism

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What is the Marshall Plan?

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a US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW II

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What is Cominform?

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Communist Information Bureau

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What is the Tehran Conference?

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western allies would launch d-day by may 1944 Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill

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When was the Tehran Conference?

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November 1943
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin

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When was the Yalta conference?

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February 1945
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt

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When was the potsdam conference

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July 1945
Truman, Stalin, Churchill

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what is Com econ 1949

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USSR paid other communist states to keep them communist

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what is Bizonia

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Combination of British and US regions of Berlin, to which the French zone was soon added

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What is the Berlin Wall?

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A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

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What is the FRG?

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Federal Republic of Germany; West Germany

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What is GDR?

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German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

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What is the Warsaw Pact?

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USSR version of NATO

18
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When was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

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6th August 1945

19
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When was the Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

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9th August 1945

20
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What telegram was sent from the US embassy in Moscow telling Truman what the soviets were up too?

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Long Telegram
George kennan

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What telegram was sent by the Soviet embassy in Washington?

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Novikov Telegram
Soviet needs a buffer zone between west and itself

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what is the Brezhnev doctrine?

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If one country’s actions threaten other countries then it was the duty of those countries to take steps to stop those actions.

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