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Superpower Relations And The Cold War Flashcards

1
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What are Capitalist beliefs

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Free to own Property
Free Market
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of speech
Multi-Party state

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What are Communist beliefs

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All property belongs to the state
Closed Market
Everyone should share wealth
No religion
No freedom of speech
One Party State

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Who are the two superpowers

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USSR and USA

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When did the Yalta Conference happen?

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Febuary 1945

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When did the ‘Potsdam Conference’ happen

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July-August 1945

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When did the Tehran Conference happen

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December 1943

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What were the aims of USA in the Tehran conference

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To gain Stalins support to fight Japan

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Aims of the USSR during Tehran Conference?

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To make a second front to go fight the Nazis

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Agreements made in Tehran Conference?

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USA agreed to help fight germany then soviet union would help USA jump Japan

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Members of Tehran Conference

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Franklin D Roosevelt (USA)

Winstin Churchill (UK)

Joseph Stalin (USSR)

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What did they agree on Yalta Conference

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Germany split into four zones and they had to pay 20 billion
Poland given to USSR
USA and USSR went to go jump Japan

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What happened at Potsdam Conference

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USA made nukes and now everyone is scared, USSR starts to develope one too

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Members or Potsdam Conference

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Harry S Truman (USA)

Joseph Stalin (USSR)

Clement Atlee (UK)

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Impact of Atomic Bomb

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USSR is scared
Countries go under US protection
They nuke Japan
Truman has more bargaining Power

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What was the Long Telegram

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Febuary 1946, It said that soviets wanted to destroy capitalism.

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Impact of Long Telegram

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USA got paranoid and made the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

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17
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What is the Truman Doctrine

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1947, Policy to contain communist satelite states

18
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What is Marshall Plan

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Where usa giv money to europon countries so they dont turn communist

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What was the Novicov Telegram ?

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Telegram telling USSR that US wants to destroy communism with their military

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What are the impacts of the two telegrams?

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It increased tensions
It increased distrust

21
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When did the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech happen?

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March 1946

22
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What was the warsaw pact and nato

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Organization made by russia and europe to fight and beat the others bombarassclart pussyclart dellwitit ragamuffin ass

23
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When was NATO formed

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April 1949

24
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What was the Berlin Blockade?

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When USSR blockaded all roads, trains and boats to West Berlin.

25
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When did Comecon form?

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1949

26
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What was Comecon?

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Plan that aimed to financially aid communist satelite states.

Direction competition to Marshal Plan

27
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What was US response to the Berlin Blockade?

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They airlifted the aid into West Berlin

28
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What happened in the hungarian uprising

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In 1956 The Uprising was an almost spontaneous revolt by the Hungarian people against the ruling Communist Party

29
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What was the Arms Race?

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Where US and USSR competed to get a more powerful nucleur arsenal than the other

30
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What happened in the cuban missile crisis

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The soviet onion put bombaclart yardman missiles in cuba to fire into the monkey rassclart usa
Usa got real mad so both removed missiles from turkey and cuba

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What is an ICBM?

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Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile

32
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Deteante

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No fighting happened meaning no bloodclart commies or americans where killed

33
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What was the Refugee problem in East Berlin

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People kept leaving East Berlin to go to the richer West berlin which caused the working population to go down

34
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What was the USSR response to the Refugee problem?

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They built the Berlin Wall to keep people inside

35
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When was the East Berlin Refugee problem?

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1958

36
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What caused soviet invasion of afghanistan

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Previous pro-soviet government got deposed

37
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What happened to the soviets in afganistan

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They got defeated

38
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Impacts of Berlin Wall

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It kept East Berliners inside

It showed that West Berlin was a beacon of Freedom

39
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What was the ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion?

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American plan of training Cuban Rebels to fight

40
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When was the soviet invasion of afganstisan

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24 december 1979

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