UNIT 2 SAC 1 - The Cold War

Question 1

What was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 1

A meeting between the big three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt)
First time meeting and working out a war plan.

Question 2

What were the outcomes of the Tehran Conference?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

What was the Bretton Woods Meeting?

Answer 3

Big Three meeting to outline financial concerns post-war.
Agreed upon multiple international financial bodies.

Question 4

What was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 4

Big Three meeting in 1945.
Met to decide upon the future of central Europe.

Question 5

What were the goals of the Big Three at the Yalta Conference?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

What were the outcomes of the Yalta Conference?

Answer 6

• 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.

Question 7

What was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

What were the outcomes of the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 8

• 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.

Question 9

Key Features of the United States

Question 10

Key Features of the USSR

Question 11

Establishment of the Iron Curtain

Question 12

The Truman Doctrine

Question 13

The Marshall Plan

Question 14

Outcomes and response to the Marshall Plan

Question 15

History of Vietnam

Question 16

Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh

Question 17

Vietnam and the Genva Conference

Question 18

What was the domino theory

Question 19

Before the war - South Vietnam

Question 20

Before the war - North Vietnam

Question 21

Causes of the Vietnam War

Question 22

The Tet Offensive

Question 23

Opposition to the Vietnam War

Question 24

Outcome of the Paris Peace Accords

Question 25

Final outcome and consquences of the Vietname War

Question 26

Early vietnam War support

Question 27

National Service

Question 28

War on televison

Question 29

My Lai massacre

Question 30

Vietnam war protest movements

Question 31

Impacts on US society