Cold War Key Profiles

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Since when had Roosevelt been US President?

Since 1933

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - What did Roosevelt end?

The USA’s isolationism

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - When did Roosevelt end the USA’s isolationism?

In 1941, when he entered the war

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - What political party was Roosevelt?

He was a committed democrat

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Although Roosevelt was a committed democrat, what was he prepared to do?

Support the USSR in the Grand Alliance 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt - What was Roosevelt optimistic about?

That meaningful international cooperation could continue after the war had ended 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Winston Churchill - When did Churchill become prime minister?

In 1940 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Winston Churchill - What did Churchill establish?

A working relationship with Stalin 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Winston Churchill - Soon after Churchill created a working relationship with Stalin, what happened?

Churchill quickly became suspicious of Stalin’s post war intentions 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Winston Churchill - What was Churchill anxious to ensure?

Unity among the Western capitalist powers in the face of what he regarded as a fundamental threat from the USSR

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - What was Stalin’s birth name?

Joseph Djugashvili 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - Why did he adopt the name Stalin?

Because it meant ‘steel’ 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - What was Stalin one of the leaders of?

The Bolshevik party 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - Although he was a member of the Bolshevik party, what was he not regarded as?

An intellectual 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - Because Stalin was not regarded as an intellectual, what did this mean?

It made him seem less important in the early days of the Soviet state 

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - Although Stalin seemed less important in the early days of the Soviet state, what happened?

He quickly accumulated power

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - After accumulating this power, what did Stalin do?

Succeed Lenin

Yalta Conference 1945 - Joseph Stalin - When did Stalin succeed Lenin?

By 1929