Origins of the Cold War; Dates Flashcards
Russian & Bolshevik revolution
1917
Russians remove Tsar, communists then have revolution & take over
Russian Civil war
1918-1921
Reds (communists) fight the whites (Tsarists supported by US, UK & France) - creates Soviet distrust of West
Comintern
1919
international communist organisation which encouraged communist in other countries
Great Depression
1929
Saw US workers & business start working in USSR - improved relations
Roosevelt formally acknowledges USSR
1933
Marker of improved relations
USSR joins League of Nations
1934
USSR purges / ‘show trials’
1934
Stalin arrests/executed party members for ‘conspiring’ with the West - reveals as police state
Atlantic charter
1941
US & UK meet
Set out post world principles
- Stalin paranoid - not there & dif visions of future
Casablanca
1943 January
US & UK meet
postpone D-day landings, need for unconditional German surrender
- Stalin paranoid - not there & thinks D-Day stalling is attack on USSR
Foreign ministers meeting
1943
Tehran
1943 November - December
All powers
Post-war Europe, future UN & Germany’s fate,
UK & US forced to recognise USSR Eastern Europe as Soviet zone of interest
Percentages meeting
1944 October
UK & USSR
plan to split up Europe - never happens
Yalta
1945 February
‘Declaration on Liberated Europe’, accept Western Polish border, future UN, 4 power control of Berlin
Germany; to be under four power control
Roosevelt dies
1945 April
Truman becomes President
1945
Agressive towards communism as fearful of being seen as soft; little foreign policy experience & people complained about Roosevelt being too lenient
