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Flashcards by Paige Snowling, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Paige Snowling
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What was the Grand Alliance? | -UK, USA and USSR against Nazi Germany |
| What happened at the Tehran Conference in 1943? | -2nd front agreed in France -USSR to fight Japan -League of Nations discussed -Germany to be punished -Poland gets land from Germany and USSR land from Poland -Churchill and Roosevolt wanted to rebuild Germany -Stalin wanted to weaken Germany with reparations |
| What happenend at the Yalta Conference? (February 1945) | -Germany to be split into 4 -Germany to pay reparations -Nazi part banned -United Nations to be set up -Free elections in Eastern Europe -USSR gets part of Poland -USSR to fight Japan -Berlin split into 4 zones |
| What were the consequences/importances of the Tehran Conference? | -Stallin happy at 2nd front in France -Churchill happy with the 2nd front not in the Balkans -Tension between USA and UK -USA and USSR emerging as only 2 superpowers |
| What happened at the Potsdam Conference? (August 1945) | -Germany defeated -Truman new US president -USA tested atomic bomb -USSR not leaving Eastern Europe -Germany and Berlin divided in 4 zones -Reparations taken from own zone -Nazi Party banned and leaders titled as war criminals |
| What were the consequences/importances of the Potsdam Conference? | -Relations worsen -Truman dislikes communism -Grand Alliance ending -USSR threatened by atomic bomb -USA feels USSR was taking over Eastern Europe -Churchill replaced by Atlee -Roosevolt replaced by Truman |
| How did the Cold War Tension Begin? | -Long and Novikov telegrams -Iron Curtain speech -Creation of satelite states (USSR taking over Eastern Europe) -Truman Doctrine -Marshall Plan -Comecon and Cominform |
| What was the Truman Doctrine (1947) and the Marshall Plan (1947)? | Truman -Political aid -Contain communism Marshall -To give money to Western Europe to stop it going Communist -Economic aid from the USA |
| What was Cominform (1947) and Comecon (1949)? |
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