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What did the USA and USSR emerge from WWII as?

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Superpowers

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What is a superpower?

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A country dominant in international relations, able to influence events

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What foreign policy did the USA follow in the 1920s and 1930s?

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Isolationism

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What is isolationism?

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A policy of not interfering in world affairs; isolating yourself from everyone else

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Who was FDR?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States

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When was the Yalta Conference held?

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February 1945

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What was agreed about Japan at Yalta?

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That the USSR would fight Japan once Germany was defeated

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What was agreed about German territory at Yalta?

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Germany would be divided into four between USA, USSR, Britain, France. The same would be done to Berlin.

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What was agreed about war criminals at Yalta?

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The Big Three would hunt down war criminals and punish them

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Who were the Big Three?

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Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt

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What did the Big Three agree to establish and join?

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A United Nations Organisation (UNO) which would aim to keep peace

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Why was the establishment of the UN significant?

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It showed the Big Three wanted to continue working together after the war

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What was agreed about eastern Europe?

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That it would be a Soviet ‘sphere of influence’

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What is meant by ‘sphere of influence’?

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A geographic area where a country has political and economic influence

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What did FDR and Churchill understand by the ‘sphere of influence’?

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That the USSR would ensure there were governments friendly to Moscow in eastern Europe. They did not think he would install ‘puppet governments’.

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What is meant by a ‘puppet government’?

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A government with a leader, but who actually takes his orders from someone else (e.g. Stalin)

17
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What was the main disagreement at Yalta?

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Poland

18
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Why did Poland matter so much to Stalin?

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He believed it was key to Russia’s security - Germany had invaded Russia twice through Poland, in 1914 and 1941

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What did Stalin want to do with Poland?

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Move the USSR’s border westwards into Poland. He argued that Poland could move its borders westwards into Germany.

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Why was there little Churchill or FDR could do about Stalin’s demands over Poland?

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The Red Army were in Poland - Britain and USSR were not willing to start yet another war to protect Poland

21
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What was Churchill and FDR’s reaction to Stalin’s demands over Poland?

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They were unhappy, but could do little

22
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How did Churchill persuade FDR to accept Stalin’s demands over Poland?

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Churchill and FDR would accept it providing Stalin did not interfere in Greece. Stalin agreed.

23
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Who did Stalin get on better with: Churchill or FDR?

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FDR - the president and Stalin, despite their ideological differences, struck up a good relationship

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Why did Churchill press for a French zone in Germany?

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He feared FDR was too pro-Russian and wanted another anti-Russian voice in the mix.

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How did Stalin describe Poland?

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It was a matter of “life and death of the Soviet Union”

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How did former president Herbert Hoover describe the agreements made at Yalta?

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As a “great hope for the world”

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How did FDR’s advisor, Harry Hopkins, describe Yalta?

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“We really believed… this was the dawn of the new day”

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Overall, what was the significance of the Yalta Conference?

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It was broadly positive.

  • Agreements far outweighed disagreements
  • The Big Three - despite being ideologically opposed - showed through the UN and their actions over war criminals that they would work together after the war
  • They agreed to meet again at Potsdam, again showing further appetite for co-operation

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