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History - Cold War Flashcards

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Cold: which ideologies dislike each other in the coldwar

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  • Capitalists (NATO)
  • Communists (USSR)
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Cold: what does USSR stand for and what can it also be referred to as

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The soviet union

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Cold: what does NATO stand for

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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

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Cold: what are 3 points about the politics of the USSR

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  • a one party policy
  • electrion are rigged
  • people cannot change the government
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Cold: what are 3 points about American politics

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  • several parties
  • voters can change the gov
  • capitalist
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Cold: what are 2 points about the communist economy

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  • no private industry
  • all buissiness owned by the government for the benifit of all
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Cold: what are 2 points about the American capitalist economy

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  • most industry privately owned
  • companies can make profit
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Cold: what are 3 points about the USSR communist beliefs

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  • everyone is equal
  • Communism should be a world revolution
  • media is censored
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Cold: what are 3 points about the US capitalist beliefs

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  • some will be wealthier than others
  • other countries should be capitalist to boost trade
  • media is more free
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Cold: what was opperation Barberosa

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Hitlers betryal of Stalin when he invaded the soviet union, causing the USSR to join the allies.

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Cold: what are 5 ways that the soviets and Americans competed with eachother

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  • spying
  • propaganda
  • arms race
  • space race
  • loans and aid
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Cold: What are the 3 conferences called

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  • tehran (1943)
  • yalta (1945)
  • potsdam (1945)
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Cold: what happened in terms of leaders between yalta and potsdam

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Roosevelt died and was replaced by Truman who hated Stalin and Churchill was voted out and replaced by attlee

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Cold: why was the Tehran conference held where it was

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Because it was the capital of Iran that was close to the soviet union, they were being diplomatic

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Cold: what were the disagreements in the Tehran conference

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None :)

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Cold: what were the main 3 agreements at the Tehran conference

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  • Britain and USA agreed to invade France to allay the pressure on the USSR
  • after the defeat of Germany USSR would invade japan
  • after war UN would be set up
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Cold: what 2 agreements were made at Yalta

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  • Germany divided into 4 zones (english, french, USA and USSR)
  • eastern Europe for USSR
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Cold: what was the disagreement at Yalta

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  • Stalin wanted a “friendly” gov in Poland and Roosevelt did not
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Cold: what were the 2 agreements made at Potsdam

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  • democracy in Germany after the war
  • german reparations to allies (mostly to soviets, not in money, in equipment and such)
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Cold: what were the 2 disagreements at Potsdam

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  • stalin wanted germny punished but truman wanted it as a barrier to soviet expansion
  • get tough policy against soviets
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Cold: what did Truman tell Stalin in a lunch break and how did it make Stalin feel

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Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb, this made Stalin feel betrayed as he was not told until now.

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Cold: what is the alliance between UK, USSR and US after Hitlers betrayal (operation barberosa) 1941

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The grand alliance

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Cold: what did US and USSR diplomats send to their respective governments that increased tensions in 1946.

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Telegrams were sent, one called the long telegram sent by George Kennan and the other was a telegram to Stalin sent by Novikov

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Cold: explain the Truman doctrine

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Truman made a speech in 1947 outlining that the USA would commit to interfering in Europe to stop the spread of Communism, this is an interventionist strategy

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Cold: what is another name for the Truman doctrine

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Containment

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Cold: what was the Marshall plan (1947)

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  • general Marshall was sent to Europe to evaluate how it could be kept from falling under soviet control
  • he recomended sending 12 billion dollars to Europe in aid
  • this was effectively propoganda in the form of, look gow rich is Pam if you join me you can be too
  • in the 4 years of its operation 17 billion was sent to Europe
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Cold: what is cominform (1947)

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  • it was the Communist information bureau
  • its aim was to tighten soviet control on Eastern Europe
  • published its own communist newspaper to spread communist ideas
  • it had limited effectiveness as demonstrated when Yugoslavia left in 1948
  • counterpart to Truman doctrine
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Cold: what was Comecon (1949)

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  • it was the soviet response and counterpart to the Marshall plan
  • it was the council of mutual European economic assistance.
  • its aim was to administer its own financial aid plan, the molotov plan
  • all the countries (I think that the aid was given to) were communist
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Cold: how did the iron curtain metaphor come about

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On a tour of America Churchill gave a speech where spoke of the iron curtain

30
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Cold: why did Stalin believe he should decide what happened to the Eastern European counties

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Becaus the Soviets suffered a lot during the Second World War to liberate these countries

31
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Cold: what was the political situation like in Yugoslavia after the Second World War

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It had an elected communist leader who did not have good relations with Stalin

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Cold: what was the political situation like in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War

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Communism was already popular in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War and had control of the police and the army, in 1948 with the help of the Soviets the army was used to seize control of the country, the rigged elections bought a communist victory

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Cold: what was the political situation like in Hungary after the Second World War

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Communists got control of the army during an economic crisis, in 1947 elections communists took control of the government

34
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Cold: what was the molotov plan

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It was financial aid given to communist countries akin to the Marshall plan

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Cold: what were the 2 telegrams called

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  • the long telegram
  • Novikovs telegram
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Cold: what was the contents of the 2 telegrams like

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They were sent by the American and soviet ambassadors and were called the ling telegram and the Novikov telegram. They were very critical of the other government

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Cold: when were the 2 telegrams sent

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1946

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Cold: what were the order for the 3 conferences

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Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam

39
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Cold: adter 1945 what happened to the soviet atomic research scientists

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Their pay tripled

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Cold: shat happened to the zones in germany after the war

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  • bizonia, British and us zones merge to form bizonia
  • after this France merges with bizonia to form trizonia
  • this merging also happens in berlin
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Cold: when did trizonia get its own currency

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June 1948, it was given the Deutschmark for economic unity

42
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Cold: who wanted German to be a strong economy and who wanted it to be weak, why

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America wanted Germany to be strong, Stalin wanted Germany to be weak, this was because he hated Germany, and the Americans wanted it to be a barrier against soviet expansion.

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Cold: what was operation Santa clause

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It was mission during the Berlin blockade where 10,000 presents were dropped on Berlin were dropped for Christmas to Berlin chldren

44
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Cold: when did Stalin block western Berlin and what was his excuse

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He said that the Americans were intruding on soviet affairs and blockades western Berlin on the 24th of june 1948

45
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Cold what is it called when the Americans send supplies into west Berlin via air

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It is called operation vittles at first

46
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Cold: what was the outcome of the Berlin blockade

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It lead to the Americans airlifting supplies and sitting it out, the soviets were embarrassed and also it leads to germant formally splitting into 2 countries

47
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Cold: what was the official name of east germany

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East German democratic republic

48
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Cold: what was the formal name of west germany

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West federal republic of germany

49
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Cold: what is does NATO mean and when was it created

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It means north Atlantic treaty organisation and was created in April 1949

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Cold: how many original members of NATO were there and why was NATO really created

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  • 12 original members
  • NATO was created to stop the spread of communisim
51
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Cold: what was the soviet counterpart to nato

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The Warsaw pact

52
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Cold: who was Klaus fuchs

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  • he helped the us to create their first atomic bomb
  • gave over some nuclear secrets to the soviets
  • was sentenced to 14 years in prison
53
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Cold: why was the arms race important

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Because it:
- increased tensions (like most other things we study)
- changes the nature of warfare
- causes lots of spending

54
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Cold: when did the USSR launch sputnik

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1957

55
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Cold: what is it called when an independent country is controlled by another country

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A satellite state

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