1/31
Looks like no tags are added yet.
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced |
---|
No study sessions yet.
big three
great britian
united states
soviet union
big three met at a series of 3 conferences
negotiated what a post-war Europe would look like.
one of the key agreements as that eastern Europe would be allowed to choose their leaders and governments though democratic elections
big three created United Nations
hoped to replace league of nations and do what it couldn’t - prevent another world war
soviet union absorbed eastern european nations
became known as the Soviet Bloc
Germany was divided into four occupations zones
french
soviets
united states
british
soviets wanted to keep Germany weak
unites states wanted a strong Germany to lead to a stable Europe
former British prime minister Winston Churchill
iron curtain speech
an iron curtain ha descended across the continent
the division between democratic Europe and communist Europe was complete
after World War II, symbolized by the Iron Curtain.
Truman Doctrine
said that any country who felt itself under the threat of communism could expect finical and military assistance from the Unites States
how was the cold war waged?
propaganda
proxy war
covert actions
spying = CIA and KGB
arms race
nuclear weapons
korean war
after japan was defeated in WWII its former colony Korea was divided along the 38th parallel. The soviets occupied the north and the soviets occupied the south
in 1949, both armies withdrew and North Korea became communist while South Korea was more democractic
ended in a stalemate
Vietnam war
divided into north with the communists & china and south with a US friendly government after the war
ended in a stalemate
soviet invasion of Afghanistan
anti-communist gorillas were attempting to overthrow the communist government there. The communists invaded to support the communists while the USA sent weapons to support those who were attempting the other throw
nato (north Atlantic treaty organisation )
Established by the USA because the soviets were always threatening to expand into the west
NATO was a military defense pact that many western European nations signed with the untied states
if any one state was attacked, then they were all in essence attacked, so they would all therefore respond
world bank
established to provide money to countries that needed to rebuild after the war
later shifted to provide loans to developing nations
goal was to make sure that a global economic catastrophe like the Great Depression didn’t happen
international monetary fund
facilitated international currency exchange and encouraged global trade
world trade organisation
responsible for generating and enforcing a set of rules that governed international trade
warsaw pact
military alliance with the satellite states of the soviet union
would require dependence on soviet union
soviet bloc states DID NOT flourish economically like Western Europe did
this is mainly due to planned economies
the economic output of these satellite states were planned by a committee within the Soviet Union
each state was told what to produce, how much of it to produce, and where they could sell it
states in the soviet bloc did not produce for their own benefit but rather for the overall benefit of the Soviet Union, often to their own hurt
5 year plans
goals were the rapid industrialization of the soviet union and economic flourishing
in Ukraine, many farmers rebelled against the collectivization and as a result they got blacklisted for Soviet food distribution
5 million people died from this
social welfare
housing
healthcare
universal education
poorly implemented
hastily built and sometimes required more than one family to live in a single apartment
social welfare effects
in order to achieve this level of centralization, the soviet union systematically removed the civil liberties and individuals rights of the population
secret police
secret police
responsible for rooting out those who dissented from the Communist Party’s agenda, and in order to make those threats stick, they were authorized to use violence and subversion to keep the populations in check
emigration resticted
berlin wall
to prevent east Berliners from fleeing to Democratic west
when Khrushchev came to power
he started de-stalinization by publicly denounced Stalin for his authoritarian rule
artists were more free
released political prisoners
scaled back the secret police
implemented economic policies to help citizens
ease heavy soviet influence on the soviet bloc states
more civil liberties would be tolerated in these satellite states and some limited free trade would also be implemented
Revolts against Soviet Policies: Hungarian Revolution
Hungarians announced that they would leave the Warsaw Pact and seek protection of united nations. Soviets then sent troops to Budapest killing almost 3000 and crushed the revolution. As a result, the soviet grip on hungary grew tighter and more oppressive
Revolts against Soviet Policies: invasion of Czechoslovakia
reform-minded leader enacted many liberal reforms outside of the bounds of Soviet policies. As a result, Warsaw Pact Troops invaded Czechoslovakia stopped the reforms and strengthened the more oppressive wing of communist party there
Gorbechev
his policies of glasnost and perestroika which introduced much more openness and some limited free market economics into the Soviet Union, untimely led to the collapse of the Soviet Union
surge of nationalism
completed process of dismantling soviet union
dawes plan
germany would pay what they could
american financial aid
treaty of locarno
germany promised to recognise borders which allowed them to join league of nations