Key Topic One

Question 1

What conference was in 1943?

Answer 1

Teheran

Question 2

What year was Yalta and Potsdam?

Answer 2

1945

Question 3

What was the outcome of Teheran?

Answer 3

Stalin wanted to attack Germany in Europe to relieve soviet pressure
Churchill wanted the attack in the Balkans
Stalin objected

Question 4

What was the outcome of Yalta?

Answer 4

USSR help defeat Japan
All allies to work for democracy in Germany
UN to be set up

Question 5

What was the outcome of Potsdam?

Answer 5

Nazis persecuted
Reduce size of Germany
Split Germany into 4

Question 6

What were trumans concerns?

Answer 6

Europe had no money
Communism appealing to those with no money
E Europe liberated by soviets
Poor counties couldn’t combat communism

Question 7

What did the Truman doctrine entail?

Answer 7

Speech about why USA should be involved

• choice between cap/com
• com was bad no freedom
• USA try to contain it
• USA give arms

Question 8

What did the Marshall plan entail?

Answer 8

$13 b from USA to rebuild Europe
Countries must trade with USA to get money
16 countries joined
Stalin saw as a attack on ussr

Question 9

What does cominform stand for? What did it do?

Answer 9

Communist information bureau

Organised communist parties and arranged leadership (Europe)

Question 10

What year was cominform set up?

Answer 10

1947

Question 11

What does Comecon stand for?

Answer 11

Council for mutual assistance

Question 12

What year was Comecon set up?

Answer 12

1949

Question 13

Key features of cominform?(2)

Answer 13

• get rid of opposition to ussr control in satellite states

- encouraged communist countries to block Marshall aid

Question 14

Key features of Comecon?

Answer 14

Built links between Comecon countries
Prevented Comecon countries signing Marshall plan
Included ussr, Bulgaria,Czech, Poland,Hungary,Romania

Question 15

What was bizonia?

Answer 15

British and us zones joined together to try and reunify Germany

Question 16

Why was Stalin not happy with bizonia?

Answer 16

Went against potsdam agreements

Thought USA was trying to permanently divide rich from poor (west from east)

Question 17

Why did Stalin cause a blockade?

Answer 17

Wanted Germany to be a weak communist country so they couldn’t attack ussr again

Question 18

What did the blockade entail?

Answer 18

E Germany grew all food that w Germany ate
Berlin was divided into 4
USSR blocked supplies into Berlin to show they were powerful

Question 19

What was de-stalinisation?

Answer 19

Stalin died and krushchev took over
He said control would relax
Hungarians started demonstrating against communist control
New leader appointed: imre Nagy

Question 20

Impact of soviet rule in hungry?

Answer 20

Food products shipped off to Russia
Opposition was ruthlessly wiped out
Rakosi was a brutal leader
Communist rule was unpopular

Question 21

What was the purpose of the conferences

Answer 21

To decide what was happening after the Second World War