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Part 1: How did the Cold War Develop 1943-1956?
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- 1THE COLD WAR BEGINS!!!1946
The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance - 2The Grand Alliance was set up in...1941
(USA; USSR; Britain) - 3Iron Curtain SpeechMarch 1946
"an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent"
Communist East: Capitalist West - 4Teheran ConferenceNovember 1943
'sphere of influence'; United Nations; Second Front; Help fight Japan
BUT!! Reperations - 5Yalta ConferenceFebruary 1945
Divide Germany into 4 Zones; free elections in Eastern Europe; Change Poland's Boarders; Committee to look at German Reparations; Nazi War Criminals to be found and punished
BUT!! Stalin wanted to cripple Germany ($10 billion) 26 million deaths --> future problems - 6Why did Stalin take over Eastern Europe?1. buffer zone
2. Stalin didn't trust the west
3. compensation
4.Spread Communism - 7What is a Satellite State?They have their own governments but with a puppet leader controlled by the Soviet Union
- 8Long Telegram & Novikov Telegram1946
- 9Truman DoctrineMarch 1947
Greece- Feb 1947: Britain could no longer afford to support Greek Government- America gave them $400 million
Gave Truman idea that he could contain Communism - 10Why was the Truman Doctrine important1. USA dropped policy of isolationism
2. USA saw themselves as the world's peacekeepers
3. How Scared USA was of Soviet expansion
4. Policy of Containment - 11Marshall PlanMarch 1947
George S Marshall (secretary of state)
accept money --> but American goods
Stalin saw it as a bribe
Had to join OEEC (Organisation for European Economic Recovery)
"the most unselfish act in history"
16 countries-- $13.75 billion - 12Cominform & Comecon1947 (Truman Doctrine)
&
1949 (Marshall Plan)
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- GCSE History (Superpowers) Flashcards on Part 1: How did the Cold War Develop 1943-1956?, created by l.auren.g.loady on 28/02/2014.
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