KQ4 Flashcards
1
Q
What were the political causes of the Berlin blockaid?
A
- disagreements on how Germany should be treated
- gain soviet occupation of West Berlin (become part of soviet sphere of influence)
- provocative actions from the USA (creating a new currency)
- undermining USA
- legal (as cutting off trade routes would pass through soviet zone)
2
Q
What are the economic reasons for the Berlin blockaid?
A
- to prevent supplies reaching West Berlin
- new currency in West Berlin (seen as economic recovery)
- imbalance between east and West Berlin began to show
3
Q
What are ‘salami tactics’?
A
-liberation of nazi control of Eastern Europe
- leave red army in said countries
- overthrow power by terror / persecution
- rigged elections held to ‘legally’ stay in said counties
4
Q
What was the Truman doctrine?
A
- A document openly criticising communism and stating how USA would support anti communist action
- states martial plan
- policy of containment
5
Q
What is martial plan?
A
- USA give $17.9 billion to Eastern Europe to help rebuild after WW2
6
Q
How did the Truman doctrine cause tension?
A
-openly anticommunist
- disregarding conflicting ideologies
7
Q
How did marshal aid cause tension?
A
- created a divide between east and West Berlin
- Stalin wanted Germany destroyed
- discredited communism + Soviet Union
- seen as dollar imperialism
8
Q
What were the agreements at Yalta?
A
- USSR could enter war against japan
- Germany would be divided into soviet, American, french and British occupation zones
- nazi war criminals persecuted
- liberated countries should be allowed to hold free elections
- move borders of Eastern Europe countries
- USA, USSR, Britain would all join new UN
- Eastern Europe would become a soviet sphere of influence
9
Q
What were the disagreements at Yalta?
A
- Eastern Europe couldn’t be in a soviet sphere of influence if they would also be able to hold free elections
- Stalin wanted more reparations
- Stalin wanted more republican seats in UN
10
Q
What were the agreements at Potsdam?
A
- Germany temporarily separated
- payments of reparations confirmed
- UN created
- punish nazi war criminals
- Germans living in other countries brought back to Germany
11
Q
What were the disagreements at Potsdam?
A
- whole confrence had conflict and rivalry (Roosevelt died and replaced by anticommunist Truman)
- Stalin wanted to cripple Germany to protect USSR but Truman thought too harsh would be repeat of TOV
- reparations resisted by Truman (20 million soviets died and want compensation)
