History Flashcards
What is Cold War
A competition between two nations which has no physical conflict
Where were the original big three
Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin
What was the Yalta conferences agenda
What would happen to German occupied countries and Russian occupied countries
What were churchills priorities
Ensure Eastern Europe is liberated
Ensure east.ern Europe is capitalist
Ensure Eastern Europe is democratic
Make sure Poland doesn’t go to the Russians
What were churchills priorities
Ensure Eastern Europe is liberated
Ensure east.ern Europe is capitalist
Ensure Eastern Europe is democratic
Make sure Poland doesn’t go to the Russians
What were Roosevelt’s priories
Make sure democratic rule is in Poland
Make sure democratic rule in Eastern Europe
Wants USA and USSR on good terms after war
What were stalins priorities
Protect USSR from invasion
Ensure USSR saved some polish territory
Ensure new polish government was communist friendly
Set up communist country buffer zone around USSR
What happened to the British government
Winston Churchill was replaced by Anthony Eden
What happened to president Roosevelt
He was replaced by harry truman after dying of polio
What happened to Poland in the Potsdam agreement
They were fully communist and no Lublin poles were allowed in government
What happened to Germany in Potsdam
It was split into 4 zones English French American and Russian
How did the allies deal with denazification
People were re educated and all German citizens took a test and if they were seen as too nazi they were imprisoned
How was the polish border drawn up
The German polish border was drawn up along the rivers Oder and neisse
What did the USA deny the ussr with Japan
The ussr wanted to occupy Japan but the USA refused
How did new Truman administration treat the ussr
The new president heavily distrusted communists and hated Stalin
