The Grand Alliance, 1941-5

Question 1

How did WW2 improve relations between the USA and USSR?

Answer 1

This led to a marriage of convenience because they both faced Nazi Germany

Question 2

What did USA, Russia and GB form to defeat Hitler?

Answer 2

The Grand Alliance

Question 3

What were some key features of cooperation between the USA and USSR during WW2? 2

Answer 3

All propaganda criticising one another was removed
The US set up the lend-lease scheme in order to help defeat Hitler, where they provided food and military equipment to the USSR

Question 4

Once Hitler was defeated what did FDR and Stalin have very different views over?

Answer 4

How Europe should be governed

Question 5

What was the ideal image of Europe for Stalin and FDR after WW2?

Answer 5

FDR - favoured capitalist free trade and parliamentary democracy
Stalin - wanted to remake EE in the image of the USSR

Question 6

What did the Tehran Conference in 1943 recognise?

Answer 6

The differences between the capitalist West and the communist West