Early Cold War -1
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- Created on: 14-04-17 09:21
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- Who was to Blame for the Cold War?
- Causes of the Cold War
- Ideologies
- USA- Capitalist
- USSR- Communist
- Events
- Not trusting
- Hiroshima
- Not trusting
- Aims
- Stalin - Reparations from G & buffer zone
- USA & Br
- Protect democracy - Help G recover
- Worried about Soviet sphere of influence
- Resentment
- 1918 Brits & USA tried to stop Russian Revolution
- Soviet Grudge
- 1939 - Soviets signed Nazi-Soviet pact
- American grudge
- Fuelled a propaganda war
- 1918 Brits & USA tried to stop Russian Revolution
- Soviet Grudge
- 1918 Brits & USA tried to stop Russian Revolution
- 1918 Brits & USA tried to stop Russian Revolution
- Ideologies
- Yalta, Feb 1945
- Protocol
- Polish provisional gov. - free elections
- Nazi war criminals to trial
- People of Europe - democratic & self gov.
- Maintain law & order
- relief measures
- Set up governments
- Hold elections - 'Declaration of liberated Europe'
- Divide G into 4 zones, Br, Fr, USSR, USA
- Negotiations
- In Stalin's favour
- Roosevelt wanted Russian help in Pacific vs Japan
- Russia agreed to:
- Join war in Pacific - return for occupation in North Korea & Manchuria
- Join UN
- In Stalin's favour
- Outcomes
- Appeared successful - tensions rising
- Reparations & Poland
- Churchill to Roosevelt
- 'Soviet Union has become a danger to the free world'
- Appeared successful - tensions rising
- Protocol
- Potsdam, July 1945
- Reasons it wasn't successsful
- Roosevelt dead - Truman, tougher with Russians
- 21st July - Truman learns US tested Nuke
- Advantage over everyone else
- Didn't need Russian help
- Advantage over everyone else
- Superpower relations worsened
- Stalin invited non-communist Polish leaders and arrested them
- March 1945
- British planning group - total war on Russia
- 'Operation Unthinkable' May 1945
- Stalin invited non-communist Polish leaders and arrested them
- Protocols
- 4 'zone of occupation' in G
- Nazi party, laws & gov. destroyed
- German education -No Nazis - democracy
- Nazi war criminals to trial
- Polish provisional gov. of national unity
- 'free, unfettered elections asap'
- Russia -reparations from Soviet zone
- 10% western zones equipment as reparations
- Br & USA could take reps from their zones
- Truman said - 'compromise'
- Disagreed on:
- How to divide G
- Size of German reparations
- Russian influence on peoples of Eastern Europe
- Size of German reparations
- Russian influence on peoples of Eastern Europe
- How to divide G
- Disagreed on:
- 4 'zone of occupation' in G
- Reasons it wasn't successsful
- Causes of the Cold War
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