Outbreak Of Cold war Flashcards
What were the terms at Yalta for Germany?
- February 1945
- Only unconditional surrender would be accepted
- No separate peace between the Soviet Union and Germany or Germany and Britain and France
- Germany temporarily divided into four zones of occupation shared between the victorious nations ( USA, USSR, Britain, France)
- Berlin would also be split into four areas as it is in Soviet area
- Reparations of 20 billion dollars would be taken from Germany in kind and half would be given to the USSR for its heavy losses.
What is the Marshall plan and the Truman Doctrine?
- Marshall plan -> A European recovery program that was offered to stabilise the economies of Europe and prevent the growth of communism in European democracies, although this was not said out right.
Truman Doctrine -> A commitment to help any country threatened by armed minorities primarily through economic and financial aid. cough cough communism.
Reasons for the blockade
Reasons for blockade - Deutschmark, Bizonia and Trizonia all felt aggressive to Stalin and it made it seem as if the west was ganging up against the east.
Yalta terms for Poland
- February 1945
- Soviet Union would be given the eastern part of Poland if improve its defences and thereby regain land it had originally seized following the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
- A provisional government established would include the ‘Lublin’ poles backed by the USSR and the ‘London’ poles who fled during the war in 1939
- In return, Poland would gain land from eastern Germany
- Free elections would take place in Poland
Yalta terms for Japan
- Once Germany was defeated Soviet armies in the Far East would invade Manchuria and help with the invasion of Japan (as a reward, the Soviet Union would gain land in the Far East)
Yalta terms for United Nations Organisation
- A new international organisation would be created to keep and promote world peace.
- At first it would consist of all nations that had fought against Germany
- The Security Council would consist of five permanent members into a power of veto
- The first meeting will be held in San Francisco in June 1945
Why does the west not trust the USSR?
- 1917/18 Soviets ceased power and pulled out of WWI
- 1922 Russia merged with five neighbouring countries to form a new country called the Soviet Union 
- 1936 five more states to join the Soviet Union
- 1939 Soviet forces marched into eastern Poland and the Baltic states
- 1939 Russia signed Nazi soviet pact
Why did the USSR not trust the west?
- 1918 Western powers sent armies to Russia in attempt to remove the Communist government
- World War II dash Stalin believe Western powers were purposely delaying opening of second front in Europe in 1942–3
- 1942-3 Britain and USA do not tell Stalin that they have broken the German code called the Enigma
- 1944-5 The USA did not share details of the Manhattan project

What were the terms at Yalta for liberated Europe?
- Allowed to hold free elections and form independent government
-This would also happen in countries they had liberated in Eastern Europe including Poland
Potsdam terms for Germany
- Confirmed Germany and Berlin would be divided
- confirmed Germany would pay reparations
- Germany to be disarmed, Nazi party abolished and war criminals put on trial
- Germany to be governed by an Allied control council in Berlin in which each decision would require a unanimous verdict and Germany would be treated as a single economic unit.
Potsdam terms for Poland
- Poland‘s borders to be moved west to the rivers Oder and Neisse, thereby confirming land to be taken from eastern Germany
Potsdam terms for liberated Europe
-Germans living in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia should return to Germany
Potsdam terms for Japan
- The USA was reluctant to provide the Soviet Union with land in the Far East
Potsdam terms for UNO
- creation and initial structure confirmed as agreed at Yalta
Disagreements or problems with Germany after WWII
- No peace treaty drawn for defeated Germany
- Stalin wanted to dismember Germany but Britain and the US opposed this
- Soviets wanted access to Germany’s industrial heartland of the Ruhr but this was rejected by Britain and the USA