War-time conferences

Question 1

When was the Casablanca conference?

Answer 1

January 1943

Question 2

Who was and who wasn’t at the Casablanca conference?

Answer 2

Was: Roosevelt and Churchill

Wasn’t: Stalin

Question 3

What was decided at Casablanca?

(2)

Answer 3

1. ‘Unconditional surrender’ of Germany
2. No ‘Second Front’ until 1944

Question 4

Stalin’s reactions to Casablanca conference?

Answer 4

Believed allowing Nazis to destroy Communism - distrust

Question 5

When was the most significant Moscow Meeting?

Answer 5

October 1944

Question 6

Who was the Moscow Meeting between?

Who wasn’t there?

Answer 6

Between: Churchill and Stalin

Wasn’t present: Roosevelt

Question 7

What was the agreement made at the Moscow Meeting known as?

Answer 7

The ‘Percentages Agreement’

Question 8

What was the ‘Percentages Agreement’?

Give the exact details

Answer 8

Divided post-war Europe into spheres of influence

USSR:

• Poland
• 90% Romania
• 75% Hungary
• 75% Bulgaria

West:

• 90% Greece

Both:

• 50:50 Yugoslavia

Question 9

Repercussions of the ‘Percentages Agreement’?

Answer 9

Was not completely followed, but laid the foundation for spheres of influence in Europe.

Especially evident in the USSR deciding not to back Greek Communists in the Greel Civil War in 1946-49