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Origins Of The Cold War Flashcards

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Comintern

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1919
Establish contact between communist groups with goal of Marxism-leninism

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Red scare

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1919
American communist society founded in American led to fear and many suspected communists deported and arrested

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Nazi soviet pact

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1939
Stalin signed pact with Hitler:
•wouldn’t invade each other
•to invade Poland and both take parts of it

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Capitalism

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Free/fair elections,
Businesses owned by individual NOT STATE
minimal government interference

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Moscow conference

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1944
•Stalin and Churchill
•informall agreement that Britain’s would put troops in Greece
(PERCENTAGES AGREEMENT)

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Potsdam

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July-Aug 1945
TRUMAN,STALIN,ATLEE
*ussr to get reparations from other zones in germanny
*west unhappy with spread of red army and soviet influence
*wanted free gov in poland

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yalta

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*4th-11th feb 1945
* dividing germany and berlin into 4
*ussr wants weak germany
*ussr agreed to join usa in war vs japan
*hold free elections in poland

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atomic bomb

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tested in july 1945 (manhattan project)
*hiroshima-6th aug 1945
*nagasaki-9th aug 1945
*stalin insulted as his help not needed as much in japan AND distrust as stalin didnt find out for a while

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other tension between big 3

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*discovery of mass graves in katyn forest (10,000 polish officers)- soviets denied
*soviets acused of letting nazis crush poles in warsaw uprisin (1944)
*delay in opening second front

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why did stalin expand across eastern europe?

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  • to create a “Buffer zone” against hostile countries
    *pursuing global communism
    *threat to captilism
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methods used by stalin for controll ?

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*influence of red army to spread communism(but mostly demiliterised)
*salami tactics- gradualy taking over in government
*cominform (1947) grouped communist parties in europe under stalin (disagreed=purged)
*comecon (1949) economic conntroll
*warsaw pact (1955) asserting military controll

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romania and communism…

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*rigged elections 372/414 communist won
*other parties abolshed
*king michael abdicated

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hungary an communism…

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party accused of offences against red army so dissolved in 1947
*communist took key positions in gov
* abolish other parties

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bulgaria and communism…

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*communists set up a coalition with peasants party
*leader (petkov) hanged for “plotting a coup” (alleged)

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east germany and communism

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*communist merge with socialist party
*purged members and took over power

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containment and examples…

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prevent communist spread
*truman doctrine
*marshall plan
*creation of frg
*NATO creation
*reconstruction of japan

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poland and communism…

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*arrested non communist leaders
*lublin comitee removed
*abolished other partiess

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czechoslovakia and communism…

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*gotwald (communist leader)
*took over police,radios,army
*foreign minister (masaryk) “fell” from window after intrest in marshall plan

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iron curtain speech…

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SINEWS OF PEACE
*1946 speech missouri
* divide between capitalist and communist
*called for aliance with USA
*first public mention of divide
*stalin saw it war mongering

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kennans long telegram…

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*us diplomat in embassy of moscow
*feb 1946
*8000 word telegram to american gov
*said soviets still seek expansion
*published ananomously in 1947 saying communism should be shut down firmly
*

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britain and greek civil war…

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*£3000m in debt after ww2
*couldnt afford it so told america
*america worried as believed economic distress could lead to communism
*truman doctrine aunched 12 march 1947 ($400m aid for greece and turkey)

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marshall plan…

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*economic aid for post war recovery
*up to $13bn for any country
*stabilised western europe and west germany
*not in line with stalins ways so if countries joined usa hoped itd make a wedge between them
*prevent communism because of economic depression

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soviets reaction to marshall plan…

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*rejected and called it “dollar imperialism”
*tightened grip on europe
*cominform to circulate more propaganda

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soviet view on germany…

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*reunification as a security threat
*wanted neutral germany

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USA view on germany…

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*economical recovery
*didnt want to be too harsh instead another war
*didnt want fully united as fear of falling under soviet controll

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causes of berlin blockade…

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*ussr reject usa monetary reform for german industry
*usa and britain form bizonia
*may 1948 france joined = trizonia
*deutsche mark introduced

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the blockade…

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*ussr took resources from its zone as reperations
*withought marshall aid they struggled
*soviets intrpduced new currency
*cut off links with west berlin

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significancce of berlin crisis…

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*12th may 1949 stalin saw it had failed so he reopened communication
*creation of the frg
crreation of gdr 1949
*usa created NATO april
*west stood up to ussr peacefully

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when was the berlin blockade?

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1948 june

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when was churchills iron curtain speech ?

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1946 march

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when was the truman doctrine?

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12 march 1947

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western response to blockade…

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*airlifted 2.3 mil tons of supplies for 11 months

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when was the brussels treaty?

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march 1945

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what was the brusels treaty?

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*collective security treaty signed by european countries
*precursor to NATO

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what did truman administration suggest?

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*peaceful draft to increase military spending

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which 3 countries joined NATO later?

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greece and turkey-1952
FRG-1955

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NATO…

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*North atlantic treaty organisaion
*work together and prevent communist spread
*USA had nuclear umbrella

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soviet reaction to nato…

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*disliked as meant rearmament of west germany
*retaliated with warsaw pact

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when was the warsaw pact ?

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may 1955

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warsaw pact…

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*eastern alliance rival to NATO
*collective security

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