Whos To Blame For The Cold War? Flashcards
When was the Yalta conference?
11 February 1945
Who was at the Yalta conference?
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
What were agreements at the Yalta conference?
Germany pay $20 billion reparations
Nazi criminals prosecuted and Nazi party banned
Demilitarisation of Germany
Germany split into 4: American, french, British, soviet
Stalin to enter Japan America war after Germany surrendered
All join League of Nations
Liberated European countries hold elections to choose government
Eastern Europe became ‘soviet sphere of influence’
Disagreements at the Yalta conference
Stalin wanted all soviet republics at LoN Assembly but only allowed 3
European elections contradict ‘soviet sphere of influence’
West and Stalin both wanted Poland
What was the iron curtain speech?
March 1946 Churchill gave speech in America that condemned soviet expansion in Eastern Europe
How did Stalin gain control of Eastern Europe?
Armed forces - soviet troops remain after liberation
Legal means - join coalitions
Terror - arrest and murder of opposition
Rigged elections
What was the Truman doctrine?
March 1947 America promised to provide aid to countries standing against communism - became committed to policy of containment
What was the Marshall Plan?
1948 Marshall saw amount of damage in Europe from WW1
USA gave $17 billion to capitalist countries
Stalin saw this as dollar imperialism - countries reliant on US prevents communism
When was the Potsdam conference?
17 July 1945
Disagreements at the Potsdam conference
Truman wanted less reparations than Stalin
Truman didn’t like soviet sphere of influence
Stalin hadn’t allowed free elections in liberated countries
Truman told Stalin about the atomic bomb testing
What were the events of the Berlin blockade?
June 24 1948: Stalin blocked supplies to West Berlin
West supplied Berlin 2.3 million tons of supplies
May 1949: Stalin lifted blockade
