Origins 1945-49

Question 1

Yalta conference

Answer 1

4th Feb 1945

- nearly beat nazi Germany

Question 2

Postdam conference

Answer 2

17th July 1945

• ww2 ended
• is atomic bomb
• japan

Question 3

Percentages agreement 1944

Answer 3

Churchill and stalin met in Moscow

Question 4

Soviet expansionism

Answer 4

From June 1946 to June 1948 etablished communist regimes in poland, hungary, bulgaria, albania, czecholovakia, romania.

Question 5

Expansion-
Poland: rigged elections

Romania: communist popular- easy take over

Bulgaria: rigged elections forced removal of opponents opposition executed

Hungary: elections rigged arrest opposition

Czecholovakia: communism popular but tried to receive marshall aid error
Yugoslavia: communist but conflict with stalin who tried to impose soviet control accepted economic aid

Answer 5

Soviet expansionism

Question 6

Kennan’s long telegram

Novinov telegram

Answer 6

feb 1946

September 1946

Question 7

Iron curtain speech

Answer 7

6 march 1946

Question 8

Truman doctrine

Answer 8

12 march 1947

Question 9

Cominform

Answer 9

September 1947

Question 10

Marshall plan

Answer 10

5th june 1947

Question 11

Bizonia

Answer 11

Jan 1947

Question 12

Berlin blockade

Answer 12

June1948

Question 13

Nato

Answer 13

4th April 1949