reasons for cold war; conferences
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- Created on: 12-04-17 11:06
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- Conferences
- Tehran Conference-November
- By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
- Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
- Italy had been invaded
- America had halted the Japanese in the pacific
- Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
- Stalin met with Churchill and Roosevelt for the first time
- One aim; destruction of Germany and Japan
- By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
- Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
- Italy had been invaded
- America had halted the Japanese in the pacific
- Red army had just began to push Germans back, forced out if Africa
- Stalin promised to enter war once Germany was defeated
- Britain and America agreed to open front against Germans by invading northern france in 1944
- By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
- One aim; destruction of Germany and Japan
- After the war , Russia was promised to gain a bit of Poland, Poland would gain German territory
- All agreed on the idea of a new world peace organisation to replace LEAGUE OF NATIONS
- By 1943 the war improved, big three started to look for peace
- Yalta conference(February 1945)
- Was held in Crimea
- To try and plan out the future after end of war
- Agreements
- Establishment of a United Nations Organisation
- the division of Germany into occupation zones for each power
- Berlin to be split into zones
- similar arrangements for occupation of Austria
- Free elections to be held in the states of the Eastern Europe
- Stalin would join war against Japan 3 months later after Germany's defeat
- Bessarabia and the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia would become part of USSR
- Agreements
- Held by Stalin, Roosevelt and Stalin although Roosevelt died 2 months later
- Signs of mutual suspicions
- Stalin wanted Manchuria and the whole of Sakhalin ISland if he was to join the war
- Russia had established communist government in Lublin.
- It was agreed that memebrs of the non-communist London based government would join Lublin while Russia would keep ***** of east Poland.
- Roosevelt and Churchill refused to agree Stalin's demands
- It was agreed that memebrs of the non-communist London based government would join Lublin while Russia would keep ***** of east Poland.
- Potsdam conference(July 1945)
- Main representatives were Stalin, Truman and Churchill
- Revealed a distinct cooling-off in the relations between East and West
- No agreements on Germany long-term future
- understood that; Germany should be disarmed, Nazi party disbanded and its leaders tried as 'war criminals'
- A few clear agreements were reached
- Germany was to be run by a Control Council
- Germany to be given chance to rebuild democratic and peaceful basis, including installing fair elections
- Nazi leaders to be put on trial
- Each power could do what it wanted in their zones, Russia could take 25% of industrial equipment
- Truman didn't inform Stalin about nature of atomic bomb, though he did tell Churchill
- Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and war quickly ended on 10th august without the need of Russian aid
- World had entered nuclear age, but in doing so further tensions and suspicions had developed between the East and the West
- Tehran Conference-November
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