Origins Of The Cold War Flashcards

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Reasons for US/Soviet mistrust

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  • Different political systems
  • USSR tried to spread Communism, but the USA was determined to stop this
  • Stalin had signed an alliance with Hitler
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Poland

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  • Stalin wanted to keep parts of Poland he had won in the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939
  • Buffer zone between the USSR/Germany
  • Lublin Poles (USSR) V London Poles
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Tensions at the Potsdam conference

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• July, 1945
• Soviet troops remained in ‘freed’ Eastern European countries
Roosevelt replaced Truman

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Agreements made at Potsdam

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  • Germany to be divided as agreed at Yalta
  • Allies receive reparations
  • Nazi party banned, leaders tried as war criminals
  • Poland’s Eastern border moved West
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‘Iron Curtain’ speech

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  • Winston Churchill, 1946
  • Declared that Europe was being split in two by Soviet policy
  • West was free and democratic, East was under Soviet control
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8 Reasons for Soviet Expansion

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  • Buffer zone between the USSR and the West
  • USSR had been invaded twice from the West in last 30 years
  • Western concerns of Soviet domination
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Soviet Expansion

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  • The Red army ‘liberated’ countries from Nazi occupation, but then took over them themselves
  • Poland, rigged elections in 1947
  • Army seized control of Czechoslovakia
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US reaction to Soviet Expansion

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• Paid for British troops in Greece & Turkey
• Containment’ – Truman Doctrine, 1947
• Marshall Plan, 1947 – economic aid
• 1948-52 USA provided $13 billion to
16 countries
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