The Cold War 1945-1975

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What agreements were made at Yalta 1945?
USA, Britain and Russia agree to split Germany into four zones of occupation, and to allow free elections in Eastern European countries.
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What changes had taken place by the time of Potsdam August 1945?
Germany had been defeated, Roosevelt had died and Churchill had lost the 1945 election
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What did the leaders agree about at Potsdam August 1945?
1) new boundaries at Poland 2) The allies decided to divide Germany and Berlin between them. 3) They agreed to legal trials at Nuremberg of Nazi leaders for war crimes.
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What were the main reasons that the USA and USSR fell out?
1) Economically, USSR was communist and believed in state control of industry and agriculture. USA was capitalist and believed in private enterprise. 2) Politically, communism meant a one party state and capitalist valued political freedom.
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What was the Iron Curtain?
The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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What was the USA’s response to the USSR’s takeover of Eastern Europe?
1) Truman Doctrine on containment 2) The Marshall Plan
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What was The Marshall Plan?
The promise that America would give aid to European countries to help rebuild their economics
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What was The Truman Doctrine?
USA would support any nation threatened by a communist takeover, gave $400 million.
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What was the Berlin Blockade?
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
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What was NATO and why was it set up?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created in 1949 by The West to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
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