Yalta & Potsdam Flashcards
What was the United Kingdom’s unsolved issues after Yalta
- Didn’t like the USSR’s western boarder
* Didn’t want Poland to become a puppet of the USSR
What was the USA’s unsolved issues after Yalta
• Feared future aggression form Stalin
What was the USSR’s unsolved issues after Yalta
• Didn’t like how few states they could take because they didn’t think that the other allies pulled their weight in the war
What did the USSR think of the atomic bombs on Japan
They thought it was a threat against the Soviet Union
Name 3 changes between Yalta and Potsdam
- The U.K.’s and USA’s leaders changed
- Hitler was defeated
- The atom bombs were dropped
What were the disagreements at Potsdam
- Stalin controlled large parts of Eastern Europe
- Stalin wanted to crush any future German threat and make them pay $10 billion in reparations while Truman didn’t want to repeat Versailles
What did all 3 powers agree on in Yalta
To punish war criminals and to join the United Nations
Where is Yalta?
Ukraine
Where was Potsdam
In Germany
What is Communism
State has ultimate control of the law and the economy
What is capitalism
Individuals take care of their own economic needs, they also tend to be democratic
Who was in the Axis
Germany, Italy and Japan
Who where the main parts of the allies
U.K. + colonies, China, USA & USSR
