Superpowers and relation/ Cold War

part 1

who were the people in the grand alliance?

Winston Churchill (uk), Franklin Roosevelt (US), Joseph stalin (UUSR)

When was the Tehran conference

October 1943

when was the Yalta conference

February 1945

when was the Potsdam conference

July 1945

What was agreed at Potsdam

berlin would be spilt into 4 (uk, ussr, us and France.)

Stalin would have Poland and promised free elections

what did Stalin do that increased tensions (1)

He didn’t give Poland free elections that he promised. Made it communist

what was the countries surrounding the ussr called to Stalin? (1945-1948)

his buffer zone of communist countries

what happened on the 6th and the 9th of August 1945

usa tested atombic bombs on Japan (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

What, where and who iron curtain speech?

Speech declaring the divide between the east and west in Missouri use, March 1946

what was the Truman doctrine

the use making the pledge to try and contain communism.

where, and how did Stalin turn countries communist.

Hungary, Bulgaria, czech slovakia.

in Hungary, he arrested their government and implanted communist governors instead.

who replaced Roosevelt

Truman

whats the difference between isolationism and containment.

us wanting to avoid getting involved with other countries military conflicts, vs us wanting to stop or prevent countries from turning to communism.

what was the Marshall plan (1947)

the plan to provide aid to the whole of Europe if needed, Stalin thought the us were trying “dollar imperialism”- increased tension.

what did Stalin do to counteract the Marshall plan.

made his own version for communist countries in September 1947 called cominform.

when was the long telegram sent

February 1946 from George kennan, soviet responded by suggestion use wanted world domination.

what key events had increased tensions between the east and west by this point (1947)

• potsdam conference

• stalins buffer zone and trying to turn countries communist

• creating the cominform

• Us not telling Stalin about the atomic bombs

• Truman taking Roosevelts lace and altee talking Churchills place.

• iron curtain speech

• containment policy