International Relations

Question 1

Who were the ‘big three’?

Answer 1

Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt

Question 2

Where was the Yalta conference and when?

Answer 2

Ukraine, February 1945.

Question 3

Name some agreements at the Yalta conference?

Answer 3

• Germany and Berlin would be split into 4 zones
• hunt and prosecute Nazis
• countries in Eastern Europe will be allowed free elections
• Stalin agrees to help USA fight in Japan after Germany’s defeated

Question 4

What was the soviet of sphere influence?

Answer 4

20million Russians died in the war so agreed to Russia having effect over Eastern Europe

Question 5

Why did the USA/GB and USSR not get on before the alliance in 1945?

Answer 5

USSR were communist.

Question 6

Name some disagreements at Yalta

Answer 6

-Poland - Stalin wanted to take part of Poland himself by moving USSRs border to Poland

Question 7

When was potsdam

Answer 7

July 1945

Question 8

Changes between Y and P

Answer 8

• Stalin had taken over most of Eastern Europe ( main one) so the others won’t trust him in the future
• new leaders in USA
• US tested atomic bomb
• Hitler died , Germany had fallen

Question 9

Disagreements at Potsdam

Answer 9

• what to do about Germany
• Stalin wanted pay pack
• Truman disagreed with the soviet policy

Question 10

What’s the iron curtain

Answer 10

Churchill went to USA in 1946 to warn them about Stalin

Question 11

What’s a proxy war

Answer 11

Where two sides fight through their enemy

Question 12

What’s the Truman doctrine

Answer 12

Anyone under the threat of communism should be given Us help

Question 13

What’s the Marshall aid

Answer 13

Money given to countries to rebuild them after the war to prevent them from falling to communism

Question 14

What did Stalin do because he was angry with what west Germany were doing with West Berlin

Answer 14

Built a blockade to stop west Germany from getting to Berlin

Question 15

How did west Germany bring supplies to West Berlin when the blockade was active

Answer 15

Air lift - the U.S. Didn’t want to destroy the blockade to start war so air lifted supplies etc. instead

Question 16

What were the consequences of the air lift

Answer 16

• breakdown of trust between west and east

- expensive

Question 17

What is a Cold War

Answer 17

A war in which two super powers opposed each other however with no direct fighting. The USA were capitalists and the USSR were communist

Question 18

Define communism

Answer 18

Low tax, everyone has equal rights

Question 19

Define capitalism

Answer 19

Extreme of wealth and more freedom

Question 20

Define the arms race

Answer 20

Conpetition for weapons , USSR vs USA

Question 21

Causes of Cold War (4)

Answer 21

Communism bs capitalism 
Fears of soviet expansion 
Splitting of Germany
Changes at Potsdam 
Arms race
Iron curtain 
Tension as more countries turn to communism 
Marshall aid
Blackade and airlift

Question 22

Causes of Cuban missile crisis

Answer 22

Fear- the USA were afraid of a nuclear attack from USSR

Question 23

Who was Batista

Answer 23

Cuban dictator
He was corrupt and unpopular
He opposed communism

Question 24

Who was Castro

Answer 24

Cleaver propagandist and was slightly Communist

Question 25

Why did relations between Cuba and USA break dow

Answer 25

• USA wanted