Topic 6- Cold War Flashcards
Why did the great alliance break down
Post war conferences
Soviet controll ee
War of words
Truman doctrine and marshall plan
Who to blame failure post war conferences
Trad view west
Yet applebawm soveits
Yalta
Feb 1945
Stalin roosevelt annd churchil agree to - un , divide ger in three, stalin decleare war jpn 3 months defeat ger in return sakhain island manchuria
Yet disagree future poland- churchill prepared to concede yet roosevelt convineced not- stalin wanted expand to river oder
Mar 1945
Us and british reps met to discuss surrener ger terrirtor n italiy
Stalin feared seperate peace deal
Roosevelt concerned breaking down relations
Yet privatley not trust stalin
Potsdam
July 1945
Relatively civil
Truman reveal to stalin that us had atomic bomb
Stalin wish to decrese reparations on ger
Future post war meetings
Broke down as molotov demanded recognition of romania and bulgaira soviet gov yet us not agree
Brewing fear of domino effect
Chnage leaders trunan more hard line
West trunks agianst stalin barbaric treatnebt of east ger when expand raping
Stalin replaced poland with pro soveit gov
Soviet control ee blame
Stalin but could argue security needed atomic bomb ect
Romania
Stalin and churchill percentages agreement
King micheal 2h ultimatum to choose pm acceptable to moscow yet ra impmose anyway
Soviet control ee
Romania
Pro comm gov bulgaria and hungary
Invade iran
Poland
Poland
Forcibly expelled 5 million ger living there
Move border to river oder not in yalta agreement
War of words
Mccauley- the soviets were their own worst enemies
Truman speech 1947
Long telegram
Iron curtain speech
Truman speech
Jan 1946
Truman declared romania and bulgaria police states and not recognised by us
Long telegram
Stalin speak at bolshoi theatre oon us agression
Kennan american diplomat moscow sent long telegram- arguably overexaggerate
Stated that stalin thought ww3 inveitable- not true
Dollar imperialism- claim us persue policy of world domination via econ means
Kennan exaccerabetd tenisons
Iron curtain speech
Mar 1946
Called for us gb alliance for prevent further soveit expansion
Churchill asked by truman to do so
Truuman doctrine
Policy of containment
1947
Not let communism spread another inch
75% in favour
Every nation faced with a choice between 2 alternative ways of life
Ussr in 1947
Soveits demand massive reparations of ger
Americans refuse so r refuse accept byrnes open door migration policu
Poland czechoslovakia hungary applied world bank for loan yet refused
Marshall plan
Usa giev aid to europe porvided produced plans for european integration
Offered to ee yet refudes
Cominform
1947
Encouraged setting. Up of fully comm gov iwth contral control, planned ecno
Debate on china
15th party congress 1927
Critic stalin over policies support nat not com in chinese civil war
Yet stalin committed to comm in one country so used as weapon against stalin as for perment rev