Superpowers 1940s Flashcards
1
Q
- What did Britain and America agree to do at the Tehran Conference of 1943?
A
Set up a Second Front.
2
Q
- What did Stalin agree to at the Yalta Conference of 1945?
A
Free elections in Eastern Europe
3
Q
- How much did the Soviet Union want in reparations at the Yalta Conference?
A
$10 billion
4
Q
- Give 1 reason why relations worsened at the Potsdam Conference.
A
New President of America (Truman) or America had the atomic bomb or Stalin refused to have free elections in Eastern Europe.
5
Q
- How much did the Soviet Union get in reparations from the Allied zones in Germany at the Potsdam Conference?
A
A quarter of the industrial goods made in the western zones
6
Q
- When and where did Churchill make his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech?
A
1946 in America (2 marks)
7
Q
- What do you call a country that is independent only in name?
A
Puppet government, or satellite state
8
Q
- Name 5 countries in Eastern Europe taken over by the Soviet Union.
A
Poland or Hungary or Czechoslovakia or Bulgaria or Romania or East Germany or Albania
9
Q
- Who sent the ‘Long Telegram’ in 1946?
A
George Kennan
10
Q
- What was the name of the telegram sent by the Russian ambassador?
A
Novikov Telegram
11
Q
- How much did America give the Greek government to help them fight a civil war against Communists?
A
$400 million
12
Q
- The Truman Doctrine is often seen as a policy of what?
A
Containment
13
Q
- What organisation did you have to join to get ‘Marshall Aid’?
A
OEEC (Organisation for European Economic Co-operation)
14
Q
- How many countries accepted Marshall Aid?
A
16
15
Q
- How much money was given out in Marshall Aid?
A
$13.75 billion
16
Q
- What did Stalin set up to control Communists parties in Europe in 1947?
A
Cominform
17
Q
- What % of the population was imprisoned in Hungary by 1953?
A
5%
18
Q
- Give 2 reasons why Stalin started the Berlin Blockade in 1948?
A
Formation of Trizonia and the creation of the Deutschmark
19
Q
- How much did America spend on the ‘Berlin Airlift’?
A
$224 million
20
Q
- What official name was given to West Germany?
A
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
21
Q
- What official name was given to East Germany?
A
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
22
Q
- What military alliance was set up by the West in 1949?
A
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
23
Q
- In what year did the Soviet Union develop the atomic bomb?
A
1949
