Early Cold War -2
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- Created on: 14-04-17 15:21
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- Who was to blame for the Cold War?
- The A-Bomb
- Why?
- Japanese verge of surrender
- Aug 1945
- Truman dropped it to end the war before USSR could claim territory in Pacific
- Impress Soviets, release pressure on Europe
- Japanese verge of surrender
- What?
- 6th Aug
- Enola Gay drops bomb, Killed over 120,000 in Hiroshima
- May, 1945
- Japanese losing war, Telegram of surrender brought up at Potsdam
- not an 'unconditional surrender'
- Japanese losing war, Telegram of surrender brought up at Potsdam
- 9th Aug
- Second bomb on nagasaki
- Japan surrender
- Second bomb on nagasaki
- 6th Aug
- How, help to cause the Cold war?
- Changed Stalin's attitude
- Angry he wasn't told about bomb
- Jealous - immediately started working on his own bomb
- Angry he wasn't told about bomb
- Changed Truman's attitude
- more aggressive & confrontational to Soviets
- Changed Stalin's attitude
- Why?
- Salami Tactics -Takeover of Easter Europe
- 1946-7 -Stalin makes sure all communist govs come to power in Eastern Europe
- Romania - 1945-7
- Left wing coalition in 1945 -communists gradually took over
- Poland -1947
- Coalition in 1945 - non-communists arrested
- Hungary- 1947
- Russian troops still there after 1945 invasion - elections lost- communist Rakosi control of police - got opponents
- Albania - 1945
- Left Wing coalition - executed members of other parties
- East Germany - 1949
- Turned into GDR in 1949
- Czechoslovakia - 1945-8
- 1948 communists banned all other parties & killed leaders
- Romania - 1945-7
- 1946-7 -Stalin makes sure all communist govs come to power in Eastern Europe
- Churchill's Fulton speech
- 5th March 1946
- Churchill invited to Fulton, Missouri, Hometown
- 5th March 1946
- 'Shadow fallen over Eastern Europe, cut off from free world by iron curtain'
- Stalin: 'Mr Churchill has called for a war on the USSR'
- Long Telegram
- George Kennan - American Embassy in Moscow - since 1933
- Hated communism & soviet system
- Analysis of Soviet policy - 8,000 word reply
- Educating against communism -making people happy, wealthy & free
- Soviets must be stopped
- Greatest threat US ever faced
- Soviets can be beaten
- Can be done without going to war
- 1. Russians determined to destroy US way of life - oppose America
- George Kennan - American Embassy in Moscow - since 1933
- The A-Bomb
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