Paper 3: Origins and Development of the Cold War Flashcards

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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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1939

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2
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Atlantic Charter

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1941

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3
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Lend-Lease Agreement

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1941

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4
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Bretton Woods’ Conference

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1944

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5
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Percentages Agreement

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1944

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6
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Tehran Conference

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1943

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7
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Yalta Conference

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Feb 1945

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8
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Hitler’s suicide

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May 1945

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9
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Potsdam Conference

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July 1945

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10
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Trinity Test

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16 July 1945

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11
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Hiroshima

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6 August 1945

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12
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Nagasaki

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9 August 1945

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13
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UN Created

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24 Oct 1945

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14
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Long Telegram

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Feb 1946

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15
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Novikov Telegram

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September 1946

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16
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Iron Curtain Speech

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5 March 1946

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17
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What were the satellite states?

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Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania

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18
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How was Bulgaria taken over?

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15,000 political opponents killed

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19
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How was Czechoslovakia taken over?

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Masaryk defenestrated

20
Q

How was Hungary taken over?

A

Rakosi sets up AVH

21
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How was Poland taken over?

A

Bierut (trained in the USSR) wins 1947 elections

22
Q

Iran Crisis

A

1946

23
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Greek Civil War

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1946-49

24
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Communist Party of France

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PCF

25
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Communist Party of Italy

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ICP

26
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Truman Doctrine

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12 March 1947

27
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Marshall Speech

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5 June 1947

28
Q

When was the Marshall Plan?

A

31 March 1948

29
Q

How much was the Marshall Plan

A

$17 billion

30
Q

Point 4 Program

A

1949

31
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Cominform

A

Oct 1947

32
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Comecon

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Jan 1949

33
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Bizonia

A

1947

34
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Deutschmark

A

23 June 1948

35
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Trizone

A

May 1948

36
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Berlin Blockade

A

Jun 1948 - May 1949

37
Q

Berlin Airlift freq.

A

1 plane every 30 seconds

38
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Berlin Airlift supplies

A

3,475 tons per day

39
Q

NATO Forms

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April 1949

40
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Trotsky

A

Stalin’s opponent who painted him as a madman and a traitor of true Marxism-Leninism

41
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Khlevniuk

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Portrayed Stalin as a calculative and attentive leader who managed to transform the post-revolution chaos into what was recognised as Stalinism

42
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Letters of Molotov and Kaganovich

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Stalin created the Soviet Union through careful planning, relying on a close circle of dedicated men and his fanatic secret police.

43
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Kotkin

A

Viewed Stalin as a highly intelligent and rational man who was strongly driven by an ideology so powerful that it could justify the deaths of millions.

44
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Traditional Historians

A

George Kennan: Stalin needed an enemy for domestic stability
Thomas Bailey: USSR hegemony and global domination
Herbert Feis: Communist world revolution

45
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Revisionist Historians

A

Williams: American response to the Cuban Revolution similar to that of empire building powers
Gabriel & Joyce Kolko: Dollar imperialism

46
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Post-Revisionist Historians

A

Gaddis: A mixture of fear, misunderstandings and overreactions

47
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Post-Cold War Historians

A

Gaddis: Reverted to orthodoxy after archives revealed
Leffler: Blamed Stalin’s personality, his authoritarian government and communism