What was the name of the Allied Alliance of WWII?
The Triple Alliance
The Triple Entente
The Grand Alliance
Which is the correct order of the Wartime Conferences?
Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam.
Yalta, Potsdam, Tehran
Potsdam, Tehran, Yalta
Which of the following attended the Yalta Conference?
Lloyd George
President Truman
Winston Churchill
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Clement Atlee
Joseph Stalin
The Grand Alliance has often been referred to as 'an alliance of convenience, not conviction.'
Differing ideologies plays a part in making relations more difficult after WWII - why Is this?
The USA and the USSR had differing 'visions' for a Post War World - each based on their own political agenda.
The USA came to believe the Soviets wanted 'world revolution' and this threatened capitalism.
The USSR was convinced the West were set on destroying communism - they felt the pre war policy of appeasement was evidence of this.
Which of the following are capitalist / democratic principles?
Multi party elections.
Individual rights protected by law.
Freedom of speech and a free uncensored press.
The Right to own property.
Which of the following are communist principles?
Free speech
One Party State
Individualism over collectivism
Collectivism over individualism
A centrally planned economy
The Tehran Conference was a good humoured one largely as the Big Three still needed each other, so there was a will to work together.
When & where was the Yalta Conference?
August 1945, in the Crimea.
February 1945, in Paris.
August 1945, in Paris.
February 1945, in the Crimea.
Which of the following were agreed at Yalta?
Germany to be divided into three zones of occupation.
Liberated countries to be granted free democratic elections.
Stalin and the USSR to have a 'sphere of influence' in Eastern Europe.
USSR to join the war against Japan?
The USA would provide the USSR with secrets from the Manhattan Project.
The United Nations would be established.