Responsibility of the Leaders
- Created by: Georgie Robinson
- Created on: 15-11-14 17:56
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- Responsibility of the Leaders
- Roosevelt
- First elected in 1932 but dominated US politics until early 1945
- Role at Yalta
- Shrewd
- Flexible over Poland, because the USSR had already occupied the country
- His death removed the Western leader who might have succeeded in extending cooperation into the post-war period
- Naive
- Made too many concessions over Poland and China
- Duped over free elections in Poland
- Ignored East Europe as a Soviet sphere of influence
- Shrewd
- Truman
- Roosevelt's successor
- Un compromising anti-communist stance increased Soviet fears
- Iron Fist policy to contain communism
- used US nuclear monopoly to put pressure on Stalin
- Berlin Airlift
- Iron Fist policy to contain communism
- exaggerated communist threat
- little knowledge of foreign affairs
- Stalin
- Goals: security through expansion and consolidation of a Soviet sphere of influence
- The Berlin Blockade led to the creation of a Capitalist West Germany and the NATO alliance
- preoccupation with Soviet security
- Russia had been invaded 3 times, and he wanted to create buffer zones to prevent further attack
- Stalin used caution and restraint: in Greece and in South Korea
- Wary of the West and Western Leaders
- Support for North Korea's attack on South Korea
- Failed to see that the West would respond rapidly to protect South Korea
- Goals: security through expansion and consolidation of a Soviet sphere of influence
- Churchill
- Churchill's view of the USSR was suspicious
- Iron Curtain speech
- Sharpened east/west divisions
- Iron Curtain speech
- October 1944: Churchill drew up the 'percentages agreement' with Stalin
- Gave Stalin the impression that a post-war Soviet sphere of influence had unspoken Western approval
- Churchill's view of the USSR was suspicious
- Roosevelt
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