Unit 1 - International Relations: Terms Flashcards
Grand alliance
The USA Britain and the US S are who work together to defeat the Nazis during World War II
Communism
A political system involving their democratic elections, a one party state propaganda, censorship, no freedom of speech, and everything of state owned
Capitalism
A political system involving democratic elections, different parties, individual freedom but extremes of wealth and poverty, freedom of speech and movement, free trade and private ownership
Wartime conferences
The three conferences during which the USA, Britain and the USSR discussed how to defeat the Nazis.
The Teheran Conference - 1943
Yalta- 1945
Potsdam - 1945
Superpowers
The USA and the USSR
Buffer zone
Stalin’s spread of communism across Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
What Churchill called Stalin’s totalitarian control over Eastern Europe
Comecon
The council for mutual economic assistance it was the USSR’s alternative to the Marshall plan
Comiform
The Communist Information Bureau - it organised all the Communist parties in Europe and arrange leadership so they would do what Moscow told them to do
Containment
The USA’s attempt to hold back the spread of communism
Temporary occupations zones
During the postwar conferences they decided to divide Germany up into four zones - France, Britain, USA & USSR
Ideology
A set of political ideas about how society should be run
De-Stalinisation
Neutralising Stalin’s influence by revising his policies
Détente
The relaxation of tension between the superpowers
Arms race
Race between the USA and the USSR to see you could have the most military arms
