UNIT 2 SAC 1 - The Cold War Flashcards
What was the Tehran Conference?
A meeting between the big three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt)
First time meeting and working out a war plan.
What were the outcomes of the Tehran Conference?
They set a date for the invasion of France.
All parties agreed upon a United Nations force.
Stalin pushed for a soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
What was the Bretton Woods Meeting?
Big Three meeting to outline financial concerns post-war.
Agreed upon multiple international financial bodies.
What was the Yalta Conference?
Big Three meeting in 1945.
Met to decide upon the future of central Europe.
What were the goals of the Big Three at the Yalta Conference?
Roosevelt:
- Wanted Russia’s help to invade Japan and would consider conceding part of Europe to get this. Also wanted Russia to participate in the United Nations.
Churchill:
- Wanted free elections for the people of Europe.
Stalin:
- Wanted a sphere of influence to act as a shield against further German aggression.
Extra:
- Roosevelt negotiated with Stalin by cutting Churchill out of negotiations leading to much being ceded to Russia.
What were the outcomes of the Yalta Conference?
- Germany’s unconditional surrender
- Germany would be broken in half between the Allies and the Soviets.
- Creation of the UN
- Germany to pay reparations
- Stalin entered the Japanese war in exchange for a few Japanese islands.
- War criminals would be brought to justice
- Poland would be reformed but with some territory ceded to the USSR. Poland took part of Germany though.
What was the Potsdam Conference?
Met to discuss and reinforce the agreements of the Yalta conference.
Roosevelt had died and was replaced by the communist-hating Vice-President Harry Truman.
Churchill lost the election to Clement Attlee who replaced him halfway through the conference.
What were the outcomes of the Potsdam Conference?
- The halves of Germany were finalised
- The trials of War criminals were to begin immediately
- Japan would surrender unconditionally
- Ethnic Germans would be humanely removed from Eastern Europe.
- Poland’s borders were defined.
Key Features of the United States
Key Features of the USSR
Establishment of the Iron Curtain
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
Outcomes and response to the Marshall Plan
History of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh
Vietnam and the Genva Conference
What was the domino theory
Before the war - South Vietnam
Before the war - North Vietnam
Causes of the Vietnam War
The Tet Offensive
Opposition to the Vietnam War
Outcome of the Paris Peace Accords
