Grand Alliance Flashcards
1
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Formation of Grand Alliance
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USSR, USA, Britain create formal alliance in 1943.
2
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American Involvement
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Joined after the Dec 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbour.
3
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USA V USSR DYNAMIC
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‘Direct Ideological Rival’
USA & Britain supported anti communist troops during the 1917-21 Russian Civil War.
4
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First Red Scare
1928-30’s
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Profound American fear of communism as a result of ideological rivalry
5
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Ideological reason for failure
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Communism didn’t allow for a free market, fredom of speech or voting juxtaposing captalist ideals.
Alliance only worked during a time of peril
6
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Tehran 1943
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- Neutral meeting ground
- A great show that they could work together
- Stalin demanded help on the western front claiming British delays
- Roosevelt wanted pressure on Japan
- Britain wanted pressuer on Mediterranean
- Russia demands protection in Easter Europe
- Russians join United Nations
7
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Yalta 1945
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- Held once nations are clearly going to win ww2
- Consensus that Treaty of Versailles was a Complete failure
- Stalin calls for mutilation of Germany
- Chruchill & Roosevelt fear power vacum will cause rise of communism
- Collapse of grand alliance beggining due to end of war
8
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Yalta 1945 outcomes
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- Churchill agrees for Poland to go to Russia, 6 million of the red army occupy Eastern Europe
- Russia to join the war against Japan 3 months after the fall of germany
- Russia is denied 12 votes in the UN instead given 1
9
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Potsdan 1945
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- Allies won WW2
- Western allies occupy West Germany, Russia occupies Eastern Germany
- Germany Divided in to 4 zones, Berlin done the same
- Euorpean borders moved westward with Russia agreeing to democracy and to remove troops
Russia did not fufill this
10
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Potsdan outcomes
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- USA no longer wabts Soviet support due to fears of expansionism
- Americans drop A bomb on Japan in Aug 1945, Soviets do not join the war
- Bomb shows force
- UN is formed
11
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UN security council consists of
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USA, USSR, UK, China, France
all have veto power
