The US/USSR Alliance

Question 1

Why did the US/ USSR Alliance breakdown?

Answer 1

• -> Disagreement abt Poland + attitudes
• ->Potsdam
• ->Fight against communism
• ->Soviet occu.

Question 2

Explain how the US and the USSR’s disagreement about Poland caused the breakdown

Answer 2

• -> June 1945: mixed government(some london Ps)
• -> London Poles: anti-communist
• ->rival groups: stalin wanted loyalty
• -> Polish border, nazi-soviet pact
• ->Churchill eager to not abandon P
• ->Soviet occupation by Potsdam conf. (July 1945)

Question 3

Explain how the Potsdam and Yalta conference caused the breakdown of the US/USSR Alliance

Answer 3

• ->attitude of Truman
• ->disagreement about free elections
• ->Agreement of free elections in yalta
• ->gave Stalin too much?

Question 4

Explain how the fight against communism caused the breakdown of the US/USSR Alliance

Answer 4

• ->war had ended
• -> Ideological differences, incompatible
• ->No more common enemy
• -> Stalin imposed communist governments (Czechoslovakia,Poland)

Question 5

Explain how the soveit occupation caused the breakdown of the US/USSR Alliance?

Answer 5

–>Takeover of eastern europe