General Flashcards
What’s Comecon
Countries for east Europe to coordinate trade industry
Favoured USSR
What NATO & Warsaw Pact
Military alliance
NATO 🇺🇸
Warsaw 🇷🇺
What’s the arms race
The desire to have more nuclear weapons than another country however this could lead to MAD it cost the country lots and lots of money to develop a nuclear weapon
What were the differences between the two 🇷🇺🇺🇸
🇷🇺communist
🇺🇸capitalist
Both these are very opposite to one another
What resentment of history cause the Cold War? (One was for USA & one was for USSR)
🇺🇸 couldn’t forget nazi soviet pact
🇷🇺 couldn’t forget Britain and USA trying to destroy the Russian revolution
What happened at yalta?
They came to some agreements
What happened at Potsdam?
The arrival of Truman (who hated communism) caused conflict they disagreed about how to divide Germany, size of reparations and the Russian policy of east Europe
When was Hiroshima?
What was the death toll?
What did Stalin think about it?
6th August 1945
140,000
Stalin thought it was more directed at him
When was Nagasaki?
What did it ensure?
What was the death toll?
9th August 1945
Make sure Japan surrendered in the war
80,000
What was the atom bomb in comparison to the sun?
50x hotter than the Suns surface
What did Khrushchev do when he took over from Stalin
He began Destalinisation
Stopped cominform
Ended Cold War
What did Khrushchev keep when he took control
Communism
Buffer zone
What was stalin’s exquse for the buffer zone?
What did he do to them?
He said he felt he needed to protect himself (Russia) after the death toll in WW2
He turned them communist
What’s an iron curtain
A imaginary line from communism in the east and democratic government in the west
Why did Churchill give the speech (iron curtain)
What was an outcome of it?
What year did he give the speech?
To raise awareness that the USSR Can’t be trusted
It created friction between Churchill and Stalin
1946
