FIRST COLD WAR (1946-1949)

Question 1

Open Door Policy

Answer 1

FDR’s foreign policy for the post-war world

• the best way to prevent war in the future was to have a world based on free trade and equal access to raw materials
• create increased economic prosperity
• increased interdependence between countries
• less likely to go to war as they are reliant on other countries for certain goods and resources
• Stalin felt the US would be a dominant economic power

Question 2

Percentages Agreement

Answer 2

• informal agreement between Stalin and Churchill
• outlined British and Soviet ‘spheres of influence’
  Percentages
  Romania
  B: 10 %
  S: 90 %
  Greece
  B: 90%
  S: 10%
  Bulgaria
  B: 25%
  S: 75%
  Hungary
  B: 25%
  S: 75%
  Yugoslavia
  B: 50%
  S: 50%
• Soviets eventually assumed control over all countries except Greece and Yugoslavia