Relations between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchhill

What was the estimate of Soviets dead after WW2?

25 million

Who was the foreign minister of the Soviet Union?

Vyacheslav Molotov

What did Stalin believe the other members of the Grand Alliance were?

Anti-USSR

What did Stalin want to keep open?

An avenue of cooperation with the West

What was crucial to Stalin in terms of East-West relations?

Poland

What did Stalin’s priorities in Europe focus on?

Ensuring that Eastern Europe lay within a Soviet sphere of influence and to turn the whole of Germany into a communist state in the future

What was Roosevelts commitment to cooperation founded upon?

The certainty that a post-war world should strongly reflect the American concept of democracy

What was Roosevelt convinced that Stalin shared?

The same understanding and values inherent in the arrangement of the post-war world

What was Roosevelt certain that he could secure?

A democratic future for the states of Eastern Europe and managing international affairs through an international peacekeeping organisation.

What was Roosevelt criticised for?

Degree of naivety and underestimating the security needs of the Soviet Union in terms of Eastern Europe

What was Churchill convinced that Stalin’s intentions were?

To expand Soviet power in post-war Europe

Who was the British Foreign Secretary between 1940 and 1945?

Anthony Eden

What had Eden been central to?

Allied planning and diplomatic negotiations

What did Churchill tell Eden?

He couldn’t trust Soviet allies and believed they would only use force and facts

What did Churchill think the Soviets could threaten?

Britain’s imperial interests

What did Churchill think was essential for Britain?

Establish a close alliance with USA to counter potential threat

When was the Percentages Agreement?

October 1944

Who and where was the Percentages Agreement?

Churchill and Stalin in Moscow

What was the Percentages Agreement?

Establish the percentage of predominance Britain and USSR would each have in Eastern European states

What was agreed in the Percentages agreement?

USSR have 90% in Romania

Britain have 90% in Greece

Both have 50% in Hungary

What did the Percentages Agreement 1944 show for Churchill?

His determination to control Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe through spheres of influence to protect British interests

What did the allies disagree about in the Yalta Conference?

How the Declaration of Liberated Europe was interpreted and how it would be applied especially to Poland