‘The West Was More To Blame Than Stalin For The Increase In CW Tensions Between 1945-1947 Flashcards
1.War conferences
-Truman replaced Roosevelt - strained relationship and rifts made more noticeable.
-confrontational, abrasive and skeptic , culture of distrust and created the hostile tone by dropping of a bombs. Legacy of militarisation that defined the cw and paved the way for nuclear proliferation and a ‘total war’ in operation unthinkable, even after the percentages agreement and the grand alliance appearing at the height of international cooperation- fostered an atmosphere of suspicion and accelerated tensions.
- CA for war conferences
The atomic bomb was implemented in retaliation to the attack on pearl harbour by the japanese- action was misjudged by the su. Violated terms made at yalta with rigged elections and the USA were not creators of these tensions as they were warranted in reaction to the red army, Lublin govt and the ‘barbarian invasion of eastern Europe’
- TD and MP
Kennan’s long telegram cemented the idea that the soviet regime was cruel and oppressive and laid the foundations of usa’s Cold War policy for the next 25 yrs.
$13.5 bn to 16 countries for 5 yrs
Ideological and economic undermining of Stalin’s sphere of influence and buffer zone PERBCH.
- CA for TD
Cominform in 1947, storm out of Paris agreement. Retaliation - purposely conflicted with us’s intentions and misjudged its intentions to help post war countries that were struggling economically.
- Iron curtain
Radically increased cw tension, ossified, increased tensions as 10 days later Stalin released an interview suggesting that the iron curtain was in place to ‘ensure security’ tried not to be intimated by it
- Ca
Yalta, red army
