the cold war UNFINISED

What was the Cold War?

A struggle between two rival power blocks headed by the US and the USSR who divided Europe between them from 1945 to 1990. It was a conflict of ideologies the USA system based on democracy and capitalism and the USSR are a single party stay committed to communism

What was lend - lease?

The US sent $11 billion of all supplies to support the Soviet war effort from 1941 to 1945 but there were tensions over how much the USSR was to repay online. US and British pilots and sailors bringing aid were not trusted by the Soviets.

What was the secret intelligence?

Very little shared with the Soviets they had their own spies in the US atomic program

What was the delayed ‘second front’?

Stalin suspected that the US and Britain were delaying their invasion of France because they wanted to see the war in his country

When was the Tehran conference?

November 1943

What happened at the Tehran conference?

Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin met and agreed that the second front were beginning in 1944 The USSR would regain it 1918 border with Poland and Poland would compensate by its border moving West - at the expensive Germany

When was the halt a conference?

February 1945

What was agreed at Yalta?

• war crimes trials

• $20 billion in reparations

• Germany and Berlin divided temporarily into 4 occupied zones

• Movement of the German border to compensate Poland for loss of territory

• Elections in liberated countries (Stalin would not let the democratic system happen)

• UN to consist of all states at war with Germany

• Security council of 5 permanent members (US, Britain, USSR, china, France)

• USSR would enter the war with japan after Germany was defeated

What were the changes between yalta and Potsdam?

• Roosevelt died in April 1945 and was taken over by vice president Harry Truman

• Germany surrendered in may and Truman stopped lend-lease aid

• The USSR occupied many Eastern Europe countries and free elections were not held

• Truman informed Stalin that the US had developed an atomic bomb(he already knew though his spies)

• Churchhill lost the general election and was replaced by the lay out leader

When was the Potsdam conference?

July/august 1945

What was agreed at the Potsdam conference?

• Confirmed division of Germany

• war trials and ‘denazification’

• Allied control council to run Germany

• Each country was allowed to take reparations from its own zone of occupation

• the USSR was allowed to take land from Germany (Czechoslovakia, Romania, Baltic states)

• German living in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary expelled

• USSR joined the war against japan

How hard the USSR gain control of eastern Europe by 1948?

Soviet troops remained in place after driving the Germans out of Poland Hungary, Bulgaria and Rome Romania. In most cases communists came to power as part of coalition government, then one overall control through rigged elections and eliminating other parties to set up one party regimes

Why was Stalin not successful everywhere?

The USSR was forced to withdraw from around in 1946 and to give up plans for a naval base in Turkey and the pressure from the US.

How did the USA react to Soviet expansionism?

Truman was influenced by apart from George Kennon. His long telegram argued that Soviet expansion stemmed from Russian history and must be met by a policy of containment prevent preventing its furthest spread

What was the Truman doctrine?

Truman announced $400 million of economic and military aid to Greece and turkey - and pledged potentially unlimited support for other countries struggling against communism

When was the Truman doctrine?

March 1947

When was the Marshall aid ?

June 1947

What was Marshall aid ?