What did the allies disagree about at the Yalta conference?
Poland
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What did the allies do in attempt to keep peace after the war?
Joined the United Nations Organisation
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How many zones were Germany divided into as a result of yalta and what were they?
4; American, French, British, Soviet
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What did Stalin want to happen to Poland?
He wanted the border of the USSR to move westwards into Poland
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Roosevelt and Churchill accepted Stalins idea about Poland on what condition?
As long as USSR agreed not to interfere with Greece where British were attempting to prevent communists taking over
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When was the Potsdam conference?
July/August 1945
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Who was involved in the Potsdam conference?
Clement Atlee (replacing Churchill), Stalin and Truman.
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When was the Yalta conference?
1945
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what were the 3 main disgreements at potsdam?
what to do about Germany, Reparations, Soviet Policy in eastern Europe
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why did they disagree over what to do about Germany?
Stalin wanted to cripple Germany to prevent USSE against future threats. Truman did not want to repeat the mitsakes of the Treaty of Versailles.
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why did they disgree over reparations?
20 million Russians died in WW1 and Stalin wanted compensation from Germany. Truman did not want to repeat mistakes at end of WW1
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who is Khrushchev?
Leader of the USSR
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By early 1960's Eisenhower knew the missile gap was a myth, how?
He had an important source in the soviet military who had defected to the CIA
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what had the Americans developed by 1959?
their own ICBM systems
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Where did the USA have missiles stationed?
In Europe and in Turkey which could reach the USSR in just a few minutes
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In the 1950's soviets took lead in what?
missile technology
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By early 1960's who was pulling ahead in the arms race?
USA
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what did Khrushchev convince his colleagues in the communist party?
that nuclears missiles were they key to the USSR'S future secruity
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what happened on the 15th may 1957?
soviet union began testing the worlds first international Ballistic Missile
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what did the ICBM allow the soviets to do?
Launch a missile into space and then bring it down of a specific target
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When was the Truman Doctrine?
1947
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What convinced Truman that unless he acted communism would spread?
The events in Greece
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What was the aim of the Truman doctrine?
to contain communism and not to push it back
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under the Truman Doctrine, who did the USA provide support for? and what type of support?
Turkey and Greece - MilItary and Economic
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When was the Marshall plan introduced?
1947
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Truman believed poverty and hardship provided what?
a "breeding ground for communism"
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What were the two main aims of the Marshall Plan?
to stop the spread of communism and to help the economies recover.
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What tensions did the Marshall Plan cause?
only 16 countries accepted it and these were all European states also Stalin refused Marshall Aid for the USSR and banned eastern Europe countries from accepting it.
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what country appeared to the next country to fall under communist control?
Greece
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whats Foreign policy?
a set of objectives outlining how a country will interact with other ountries.
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What did the allies do in attempt to keep peace after the war?
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Joined the United Nations Organisation
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How many zones were Germany divided into as a result of yalta and what were they?
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What did Stalin want to happen to Poland?
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Roosevelt and Churchill accepted Stalins idea about Poland on what condition?
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