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what state was europe in after the first world war?

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by 1945 millions of sick, hungry, homeless refugees were around europe and the world

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why was stalin subconcious about the future of the USSR?

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because millions of people died as a result of the war in Germany

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what 2 countries were the biggest superpowers and why?

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USA and the USSR because their military strength and resources were far greater than any other country

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which country was comunist and which was capatilist?

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capitalist-USA

comunist-USSR

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what 2 superpowers worked together to defeat facism?

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USSR and USA

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why was there a battle between USA and the USSR?

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after the war was over and Germany had left there was no political power so someone had to fill the spot

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who was on the USSR side?

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France

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who was on USA side?

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Greece and yugoslavia

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what does liberated mean?

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free from enemy occupation

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where were the 2 conferences held?

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yalta and potsdam

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what was the aim of the conferences at potsdam?

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to discuss the challenges that the defeat of Germany would bring

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what did they discuss at Potsdam?

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what to do with Germany and its leaders
how to bring the war with Japan to an end
how to create and maintain peace
what was to happen with the countries that had been liberated

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who were the 3 allied leaders?

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Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt

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what 2 things were agreed at Yalta conference?

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Germany would be divided into 4 zones which would be run by USA, France, Britain and the USSR
Berlin (the soviet union) would also be divided into 4 zones

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when did roosevelt die?

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in April 1945

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who was the new president of the USA who attended the Potsdam conference?

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Harry Truman

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who replaced Churchill as British priminister?

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Clement Attlee

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what 2 new points were agreed at the next potsdam conference?

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the nazi party was to be banned and its leaders would be tried as war criminals
the order Neisse line was to form part of the future border between Poland and Germany

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why was their tension between the 3 allies?

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Britain and the USA denied stalin a naval base because they saw no need for it
Stalin wanted to take more reparations from Germany than Britain but the USA and Britain did not want to cripple Germany

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what did Truman not tell Stalin?

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that he had an atomic bomb

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where did Stalin set up a communist government?

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Poland based in Luben Truman and Attlee were suspicious

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