Higher History - The Cold War

When is the Cold War rumoured to have started and why?

• 1947

• Because President Truman sent aid to Greece & Turkey to stop soviet influence

When was the Cold War roumored to have ended and why?

• December 26th 1991

• The Soviet Union officially dissolved

Who were the main Rivals in the Cold War and what were their political systems

• The United Stated (capitalist & Democratic)

• The Soviet Union (communist & totalitarian)

What were the Ideological Differences / Underlying Causes in the Cold War?

USA / WEST:

• Capitalist economic system

• Democracy

• Free speech

• Individual freedom

USSR:

• Communist economic system

• Totalitarian dictatorship

• State control of industry

• Censorship

What was the Yalta Conference, when was it and what was an outcome?

• February 4th - 11th 1945

• A wartime meeting where Roosevelt, Churchill ad Stalin agreed to divide Germany Into four zones and allow free elections in Eastern Europe

• Vague wording led to immediate disagreements over what “free elections” meant

When did the Potsdam Conference take place, which leaders got replaced and what caused a problem?

• July 17 - August 2nd 1945

• Roosevelt’s was replaced by Truman

• Churchill was replaced y Attlee

• Truman secretly told Stalin about the atomic bomb, which destroyed trust. Argument’s erupted over Germany’s reparations and Poland’s boarders.

What were the “salami tactics” used by the Soviets to expand Eastern Europe, what countries did it include, what agreement was broken and what speech did it prompt?

• Stalin is established communist “satellite states” by slicing away opposition parties one by one. this broke the Yalta agreement and prompted Churchills 1946 ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech.

• Poland, Hugary & Romania