Origins Of Cold War Flashcards
Tehran conference 1943
UN set up after war
USSR wage war against Japan once Germany defeated
Area of eastern poland added to USSR
Yalta conference 1945
Divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones
Join UN
Allow countries liberated from German occupation to have free elections
Potsdam conference 1945
Democracy in Germany
Germany pay allies reparations
Germany and Berlin divided and demilitarised
Truman Doctrine 1947 aims
To prevent spread of communism
Marhsall plan 1947
America provudes economic aid to poor countries to stop them turning communism
US gave $12.7 billion
Cominform 1947
Set up by Stalin
Organised communist parties in Europe toencourage them to block marshall plan assisstance
Comecon 1949
Organisation to support economic growth of communist countries in Eastern Europe by encourage trade with each other
NATO 1949
In response to comecon and cominform USA and west europe form alliance
Consequences of Hungarian uprising
200,000 Hungarian refugees fled to Austria
Krushchev’s position became stronger
Showed West would not aid East overthrow communism
Causes of Hungarian uprising
Lack of political freedom
Poor harvests
Fuel shortages
De-stalinisation
Hungarian Uprising Oct 1956
Students and workers riot against police
Nagy took over as prime minister 24 Oct - he introduced democracy
Krushchev ordered soviet invasion and around 20,000 Hungarians were killed
Warsaw pact 1955
West Germany joined NATO
Stalin created military alliance of communist countries controlled by USSR
When did Stalin die and what happened next
1953
In 1955 Krushchev took over power of USSR and wanted to ‘de-stalinise’ russia
Deutsch mark
Britain, France, USA merged zones of west Germany
This mark imrpoved economy
Stalin’s response to new currency
Stalin cut off all transport links to West Berlin June 1948 to starve west city into submission
