Early Tensions

Question 1

When was The Cold War?

Answer 1

1941-1991

Question 2

What is The Grand Alliance?

Answer 2

The USSR, USA & Britain formed an alliance in 1941 to defeat Germany

Question 3

When was the Tehran conference?

Answer 3

November 1943

Question 4

What agreements were made in the Tehran conference?

Answer 4

•USA and Britain would open a second front to easy pressure off Russia
•Stalin would declare war on Japan and supply soviet troops to USA
•What would happen to Germany after the war
•International body set up

Question 5

What were the impacts of the Tehran conference?

Answer 5

•Good relations between Roosevelt and Stalin
•Agreement of when second front should be opened

Question 6

When was Yalta?

Answer 6

February 1945

Question 7

What were the areas of agreement of Yalta?

Answer 7

•Germany would be split into four zones
•Germany paused $20bn in reparations
•Nazi party banner
•United nations set up
•Stalin joined war against Japan
•Stalin agreed Eastern Europe would have free elections

Question 8

What we’re the disagreements of of Yalta?

Answer 8

•How the Poland border would be

Question 9

When was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 9

July-August 1945

Question 10

What changed between Yalta and Potsdam?

Answer 10

•Truman replaced Roosevelt
•Churchill replaced by Atlee
•Germany surrendered in 1945
•USA has developed atomic bomb

Question 11

What was agreed in Potsdam?

Answer 11

•Germany would be divided into 4 zones
•Berlin would be divided into 4 zones
•Soviet Union could take 1/4 of industrial equipment from other zones

Question 12

What was disagreed on in Potsdam?

Answer 12

•Governments of Eastern Europe
•How much reparations Germany should pay

Question 13

When did the USA test their first A bomb?

Answer 13

16th August 1945

Question 14

Why was Stalin suspicious of Truman in 1945 and what did it lead to?

Answer 14

•He wouldn’t share A bomb ‘recipe’
•Arms race

Question 15

What happened in 1949?

Answer 15

USSR exploded their own nuclear weapon so USA began to develop the H bomb

Question 16

What are the secret telegrams?

Answer 16

USA & USSR had reports sent from their embassies for information on the other leaders and their plans

Question 17

What was the long telegram?

Answer 17

•Truman received a telegram from Kennan that said:
•Stalin had given a speech calling for destruction of capitalism
•Russia was building military power
•The USA should seek to contain communism

Question 18

What was the Novikov telegram?

Answer 18

Stalin received a telegram from Novikov that said:
•USA desired to dominate world
•Following Roosevelt’s death the US gov didn’t want to co operate with Russia
•US public prepared for war with USSR

Question 19

When did The Grand Alliance end?

Answer 19

1946

Question 20

When was the Iron Curtain speech?

Answer 20

1946

Question 21

What was the Iron Curtain speech?

Answer 21

Churchill made a speech saying an iron curtain had descended across the continent of Europe

Question 22

How did the USSR respond to its nuclear inferiority?

Answer 22

By strengthening control over Eastern Europe e.g
•Rigged elections, violence, intimidation

Question 23

What did USA claim about USSR actions in 1947?

Answer 23

That their measurements were aggressive and a threat to the west