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Topic 6- Cold War Flashcards

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Why did the great alliance break down

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Post war conferences
Soviet controll ee
War of words
Truman doctrine and marshall plan

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Who to blame failure post war conferences

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Trad view west
Yet applebawm soveits

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Yalta

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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

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Mar 1945

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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

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Potsdam

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July 1945
Relatively civil
Truman reveal to stalin that us had atomic bomb
Stalin wish to decrese reparations on ger

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Future post war meetings

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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

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Soviet control ee blame

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Stalin but could argue security needed atomic bomb ect

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Romania

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Stalin and churchill percentages agreement
King micheal 2h ultimatum to choose pm acceptable to moscow yet ra impmose anyway

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Soviet control ee

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Romania
Pro comm gov bulgaria and hungary
Invade iran
Poland

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Poland

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Forcibly expelled 5 million ger living there
Move border to river oder not in yalta agreement

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War of words

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Mccauley- the soviets were their own worst enemies
Truman speech 1947
Long telegram
Iron curtain speech

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Truman speech

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Jan 1946
Truman declared romania and bulgaria police states and not recognised by us

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Long telegram

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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

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Iron curtain speech

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Mar 1946
Called for us gb alliance for prevent further soveit expansion
Churchill asked by truman to do so

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Truuman doctrine

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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

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Ussr in 1947

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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

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Marshall plan

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Usa giev aid to europe porvided produced plans for european integration
Offered to ee yet refudes

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Cominform

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1947
Encouraged setting. Up of fully comm gov iwth contral control, planned ecno

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Debate on china

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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

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1944 china

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Kmt nat defeated by jpn high inflation gov corruption undermining chiang leadership
Mao deveops idea repleace chiang as one party dictatiorship with coalition gov nc ccp
Chiang refuse

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1945 china

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Yalta agreed ussr declare war jpn 3 months after surrender ger- assisting americans
Ussr not know atoomic bombs, so started invading manchurian when us droppped bomb and jpn surrender
Soveit war on japn mao support ussr assuming that would not accept kmt victory- yet did with chiang rrecognised with sino soveit treaty, joint control chinese eastern rsilwr

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1947 china

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Marshall misson failed, leading to re eruption of civil war
Sec state us aim nat gov with ccp minority

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1948 china

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Mao ordered offensives and advances into central china- stalin backed
Kovalev commisar for transport- repair bridges and railways- advance ccp troops and improve communications between ussr and mao
Limited us assistance meant chiang defeated
Nato pact

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1949 china

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Peoples republic of china proclaimed
Chiang and 2 million people to taiwan nat gov and clained china ligit gob

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1950 china
Mao visit moscow to celebrate stalin 70th birthday- sino soviet pact negoitioan Mao a big politcal asset to deal with imepralist counrties in the world Pact agreed Coop if attacked usa jpn, peace tals w japan, consult each other on matters mutually improtant Ussr suppied with cheap tungsten and tin for 10y Stalin provides military support p[rc inc estbalishment air defence installations in coastal areas nr taiwan
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1945 cold war
Yalta Truman president Hiroshima nagasaki Potsdam Tito power yugoslavia Ra librate ee
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1946 cold war
Soviet spies in canada Comm in czech Long telegram Iron curtain speech
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1947 cold war
Cominform formed Rakosi hungary Marshall plan Truman odoctrine
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1948 cold war
Marshall aid West mark Tito
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Marshall aid
4bn 2y firt bit Most common expalnation of propserity gap
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West mark
Introduced into occupation zones june 1948 Along with bizenia united british and america Soveit repsonded iwth berlin blockade- blockimg off electricity and orad, rail base across to west berlin Airlift from allies
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Tito
Ld anti nazi residstance and created loyal backing- without much support ra National indepndence Throughout soviet bloc purges and arrests titoists- later used interchably trotskyist Kicked out cominform - accept marshall aid
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Consequences berlin blockade
Increasing supicipn of ussr by west 4 power admin ended with 2 blcos fdr west and gdr or ddr east West alliiance nato Airlift shows western commitemnet to ebrlin Ussr and west both clained victory Peaceful ending to blockade- both powers unwilling go to ear hence stalin not shhoot down planes, an act of war Berlin kept alive
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Salami tactics in czechoslovakia
Comm came to power coup feb 1948 Pruge oppositionists from police to provoke resignition of opposition parties from gov Initimidate president benes to concede to demand for comm dictted gov
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Cominform policies imposed
Collectivisation Mass arrests kulaks Heroes labour promoted versions of stakhanovites Portraits stalin displayed everywhere Every school child learn russian, language requirement job where higher education called for- russification
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Removal of zhukov
His name vanished frompress Written out of war accounts, stalin now appeeared as sole archietct of victory
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Why leningrad opposed
City with strong sense of indepndence form moscow- strnegthend from solidarity in sige Vibrant literary cultra rooted in eruooepan values of 19thc
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Pow in gulags
2 mill For timber felling Mining Constructuon Eg volga don canal
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Worsening situation easants
Taxes collective farms increased by 1/3 1946-48 Famine in countryside due to poor harvest 1946- left 1 mill people starvation and disease died 100 mill hungry
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Scientist who was celbrated
Lysenko Fake Claimed to develop new strain of wheatthat would grow in artic
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Shut down culture
State museum modern western art closed down Zoshchenko and akhmatova- leningrads- published in zvezda and leningrad
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Censuring of scientists
Nina klieuva and roskin for giving info about heir cance rreasearch to americans during us tour 19946 Dragged before honour court- new institution to examine acts of anti patriotic anture
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Increased control on outside relations
Feb 1947- law passed to outlaw marriages to foriegners Hotels restaurants and embassies watched by police for soveit girls who met foriegn men
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Stalin antisemitism
Dec 1952- stalin told meeting central committee- every jew is a potential spy for the us
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Tensions from lt in cold war
Ussr felt west didnt suffer enough- long time before opened second front Yet did have invasion and considerable loss of life
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Korean war
Ra nk 1945 Us propose divide on 38th parallel but kim il sung want unite under comm Parties created both sites and lead Soveits withdraw 1948 but left arms delievriies- increasing wepoans by 1950 which allowed north to dominate in sourth But west with us british push back quickly
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Soveit objectives for far east
Security- manchuria Spread ideology Econ0 tungsten armaments Comerical interests- port arthur Nk backup if china failed
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1951 china
Mao wrote comm book to be pubished in rusisa- look for support and guidence Ccp cc - representative all comm party of asnsian countries- essential cominform for asia
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But western alliances
Seato and sento

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