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Flashcards by l.auren.g.loady, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by l.auren.g.loady
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| Question | Answer |
| THE COLD WAR BEGINS!!! | 1946 The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance |
| The Grand Alliance was set up in... | 1941 (USA; USSR; Britain) |
| Iron Curtain Speech | March 1946 "an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent" Communist East: Capitalist West |
| Teheran Conference | November 1943 'sphere of influence'; United Nations; Second Front; Help fight Japan BUT!! Reperations |
| Yalta Conference | February 1945 Divide Germany into 4 Zones; free elections in Eastern Europe; Change Poland's Boarders; Committee to look at German Reparations; Nazi War Criminals to be found and punished BUT!! Stalin wanted to cripple Germany ($10 billion) 26 million deaths --> future problems |
| Why did Stalin take over Eastern Europe? | 1. buffer zone 2. Stalin didn't trust the west 3. compensation 4.Spread Communism |
| What is a Satellite State? | They have their own governments but with a puppet leader controlled by the Soviet Union |
| Long Telegram & Novikov Telegram | 1946 |
| Truman Doctrine | March 1947 Greece- Feb 1947: Britain could no longer afford to support Greek Government- America gave them $400 million Gave Truman idea that he could contain Communism |
| Why was the Truman Doctrine important | 1. USA dropped policy of isolationism 2. USA saw themselves as the world's peacekeepers 3. How Scared USA was of Soviet expansion 4. Policy of Containment |
| Marshall Plan | March 1947 George S Marshall (secretary of state) accept money --> but American goods Stalin saw it as a bribe Had to join OEEC (Organisation for European Economic Recovery) "the most unselfish act in history" 16 countries-- $13.75 billion |
| Cominform & Comecon | 1947 (Truman Doctrine) & 1949 (Marshall Plan) |
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