International Relations: Co-operation Ends And The Cold War Begins Flashcards
What are the ideological differences between communism and capitalism
Communism is model where all things are owned by the community with no hierarchy of social class. Therefore there is free healthcare and education along with housing and jobs for everyone.
Capitalism is an economic system based private ownership with a free market based on supply and demand. There are free and fair elections
What key decisions were made at Yalta conference?
Eastern Europe would be under soviet influence
United Nations set up
USSR would declare war on Japan
Germany and Berlin divided into 4 zones
20 billion dollars of reparations collected from Germany, half of which went to USSR
Eastern part of Poland would go to Russia and Poland would regain land from Germany
Who was at the yalta conference and what year did it happen in
Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
Feb 1945
What key decisions were made at Potsdam?
Germany to be divided and occupied
Each power took reparations from its own zone but not so much to endanger lives of ordinary Germans
USSR to take some reparations from Uk and US zones in exchange for food, fuel and raw materials
An allied control council to be set up to coordinate activities of 4 zones
Who was at Potsdam conference
Atley, Stalin and Truman
How did the atomic bomb contribute to the breakdown in cooperation
Stalin felt that the US kept the atomic bomb as a secret as to intimidate him. The bomb worries Stalin so much that he refuses to give up control of Eastern Europe and doesn’t give up control of Eastern Europe
How did differences in ideologies contribute to the breakdown of cooperations
USA believed in a capitalist society which is very different to a communist society.
