Consequences Flashcards
yalta conference
- wartime alliance preserved by Roosevelt recognizing Stalins need for security
- roosevelt accused of causing the cold war by letting Stalin occupy eastern government
- communist government took power in poland
- stalin kept promise not to intervene to support communists in greece.
potsdam conference
- truman decided he was tired of babying the soviets as stalin could not be trusted
- trumans hostility and the ‘hammer’ increased stalins insecuity and tensions
long telegram
led to truman and the US abandoning hope in co-existence and adopting containment
churchills iron curtain speech
- demonstrated end of wartime alliance and the new rivalry between the East and wesr
- helped persuade the USA to confront the soviet threat and not revert to isolation
novkiov telegram
increased soviet insecurity and determination to stand up to USA in a new conflict
truman doctrine
- established US policy of containment and halted the spread of communism in Europe
- committed US to protect Europe and showed the US would not be isolationist
- marked the effective start of the Cold War and led to Berlin airlift and korean war
Marshall plan
- led to establishment of Cominform and division of Europe
- strengthened US ties with and influence over Europe and increased US trade.
- stalin saw it as a threat, and insisted E Europe reject aid despite them wanting to accept it.
cominform
- increased soviet control over its satellite sttes and removed any opposition
- demonstrated division of europe into 2 rival camps
communist coup in Czechoslovakia
- led to congress approving Marshall plan
- Overthrow of last democracy in Eastern europe: officially all satellite states.
berlin blockade
- airlift was a massive propaganda victory for the USA
- forced Stalin to abandon the blockade in May 1949
- proved US containment to stand up to Stalin in Europe
- led to the establishment of NATO
Establishment of NATO
- Formed commitment to keep USA in and the USSR out
- final division of Europe into 2 rival camps and start of cold war
arms race
- USSR developing the atom bomb triggered a nuclear arms race
- prevented US using the bomb in korea
- ensured MAD
- led to risk of accidents and brinksmanship
korean war- cold war
- N korea remained communist
- 33,000 Americans killed
- china emerged as a superpower
- USA contained spread of communism
- USA invested more money into its army
korean war- korea
- 2 millions killed and 4 million wounded
- korea remained divided and N korea remains a threat to world peace
Hungarian revolution
-35,000 arrested and 300 executed
- 250,000 hungarians fled to austria
- loss of support for communism
- strengthening soviet block
- set back for dissidents in Eastern europe.
U2 crisis
-Paris conference collapsed ending the thaw
- decline in relations led to Khrushchev rescinding his invitation for Eisenhower to visit the USSR
- khrushchev took a more aggressive stance to the US
Berlin wall
- 5000 escapes to W Berlin
- 136 people killed trying to escape
- division of berline
- decreased tension over berlin
- propoganda victory for the west
13 days
- survival of communism in china
- removal of nuclear missiles fromr cuba and turkey
- Nuclear test ban treaty
- establishment of hotline
- removal of khurshchev
prague spring
- end of prague spring
- survival of soviet bloc
- brezhnev doctrine
- loss of support for communism
