SUPERPOWER RELATIONS AND THE COLD WAR - created from Mind Map

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What was the cold war?

The Grand Alliance

Soviet Expansion

The Long and Novikov telegrams

How Soviet control was carried out,1945-47

Impact on US-Soviet relations

The Truman Doctrine,1947

Cominform

Comecon

Marshall Plan

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No physical fighting took place

Between USA and Russia

Two rival armed camps

Communism vs Capitalism

Spying

Propaganda

Arms Race

Space Race

Loans and aid

NATO-North Atlantic Treaty organisation

Warsaw Pact

Members included USA ,Canada ,Britain and France

Soviet Union and European Satelite states

Satelite State-Countries under the domination of foreign power

Only one political party,No private businesses or profit,Everyone equal

Several political parties,right to vote,most businesses owned privately,some wealthier than others

USA,Britain,Soviet Union

The Tehran Confernce Nov 1943

The Yalta conference Feb 1945

The Potsdam Conference Jul 1945

Stalin,Roosevelt,Churchll

Britain and USA to open a second front to invade France in May 1944

Soviet Union to wage war against Japan once Germany was defeated

A United Nations organisation to be set u after the war

An area of eastern Poland to be added to Soviet Union

Soviet Union to wage war against Japan once Germany was defeated

To divide Germany into four zones US,British,French and Soviet

To Divide Berlin into four zones US,British,French and Soviet

To hunt down and try Nazi war criminals in an international court of justice

Allow countries that had been liberated to have free elections and choose the government that they want

That eastern Europe would be a Soviet sphere of influence

To join the United Nations Organisation to maintain peace

They could not agree on how much Germany should pay in reparations

Soviet troops liberated countries in eastern Europe but did not remove their military presence

Stalin ignored an agreement made at Yalta and set up a communist government in Poland

April 1945 Stalin died, replaced by Harry Truman

16 July 1945 Americans tested atomic bomb

Churchill replaced by Clement Attlee

Germany to be demilitarised

Latvia

Lithuania

Estonia

Finland

Czechslovakia

Hungary

Romania

Bulgaria

Democracy to be re-established

Nazi Party Bannned

Free elections

Freedom of Speech

Free press

Memory of what happened 1918-39

The interwar years introduced hostility from eastern European countries towards the Soviet Union

Percentages Deal

Strateigic importance of Poland

Security

Soviet expansionism

Poland signed a non aggression pact with France

Stalin and Churchill decided on the percentages deal

The Soviet Union's future security was dependant on a friendly Polish Government

Stalin wanted to move the Polish border and a communist government

Stalin wanted to control states as protection for Russia

The USA,Britain and France believed that Stalins motives were political

Satellite states

Poland

Romania

Coalition governments were set up where the communist parties shared power

The communists took over the civil service, media ,security and defence backed by Stalin

Opposition leaders were arrested or forced to flee

Elections were held but were fixed to ensure support for the communists

'Peoples democracies' were set up

In January 1947 elections were rigged for communist win

Jan 1945 communist demonstrations set up to disrupt government

March 1945 thew army intervened which disarmed the Romanian army

In November

Iron Curtain Speech

Made by Winston Churchill in Fulton,Missouri March 1946

Worsened relations between East and West

The USA believed that the Soviet Union were trying to spread communism

Greece

Consequences

Guerrilla war

The Greek government were able to defeat the communists

Rivalry increased

Cominform set up

1947

Set up to coordinate Soviet communist parties

Purge on anyone who dissagreed

1949