History: ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

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USA economic features?
democracy, individual, capitalism, privately owned
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USSR economic features?
dictatorship, communist, whole country, state ownership
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When was Yalta?
February 1945
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Who were the "big three"?
stalin, roosevelt, churchill
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What was decided?
germany into 4, berlin into 4, ussr join war against Japan
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When was Potsdam?
July-August 1945
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What was the atmosphere like?
tense, disagreements
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Why?
red army in E.Europe, Atom bomb
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What was agreed?
Nazi party banned
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Where did Stalin want a naval base?
Mediterranean, Dardanelles
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Who wanted to cripple Germany?
Stalin
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When was Hiroshima?
6th Aug 1945
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How many died?
75,000
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whAT HAPPENED ON THE 9th of aug?
Nagasaki, 60,000 dead
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What were the consequences?
Arms race
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When was the iron curtain speech?
1946
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What did fallen countries become?
satellite states
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WHAT HAPPENED TO LEADERS IN CZECH?
threatened, foreign minister killed
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when was the election?
May 1948
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WHich party took part?
communist
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WHo appealed to the USA?
greece and turkey
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Where were the royalist against the communists?
greece
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Where did Stalin want?
Dardanelles
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What aircraft carrier was given?
Franklin D Roosevelt
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What was truman's policy
containment
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How much money was given in Marshall aid?
17 billion dollars
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Why did only sixteen countries accept?
stalin didn't allow
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What was stalin's response?
Cominform 1947, Comecon 1949
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Name three causes of the Berlin blockade.
TRIZONIA, deutschmark, people leaving e.germany
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When was the blockade?
June 1948- May 1949
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How many flights on 16-17 April?
1398
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Who was the federal republic of germany?
West, August
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In october what did stalin do?
create German democratic republic
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When was Nato introduced?
1949
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What was the benefit?
nuclear in europe
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WHen did ussr get nuclear?
1949, 1953
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When was the border Pusan?
September 1950
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Who helped push to Yalu river?
United Nations
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When did china join?
1951- PUSHED TO 38TH PARALLEL
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wHO WAS n.kOREA LEADER?
kim il sung
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Who was s'korea leader?
syngman rhee
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Who called for atomic bomb?
gENERAL MacARthur
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What was the domino effect?
communist take-over
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When did Stalin die?
1953
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WHo was new leader?
Khrushchev
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WHy was there a "thaw"?
austra 1955- 1937 borders restored, peaceful co-existance
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WHat was Kruschev's respones to NATO?
wARSAW PACT
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