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History revision cards - The Cold War 1943 - 1956
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- 1The Teheran Conference 1943Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
+USA and Britain would open a second front against Germany to help USSR
-Churchill wanted to come up to create second front from underneath Germany - 2The Yalta Conference 1945Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
+Split Germany into four zones
-Did not agree on what would happen to Poland - 3The Potsdam Conference 1945Stalin, Attlee, Truman
+Chose who would lead each section of Germany
-Truman and Attlee afraid of Communism in Eastern Europe - 4Long Telegram 1946Telegram sent to Truman stating that the USSR was building up its military power.
- 5Novikov Telegram 1946Telegram sent to Stalin stating that America wanted to dominate the world.
- 6Truman Doctrine 1947Policy stating that communism should not be allowed to grow and take over the world.
- 7Marshall Plan 1947The Plan was set up to gain the trust and respect of Eastern countries for America.
Also helped the American economy. - 8Cominform 1947An organisation to represent the communist countries.
- 9Comecon 1948Established to encourage the economic development of Eastern Europe.
- 10Berlin Blockade 1948-1949-Stalin scared of USA and Britain
-USA, France and Britain ganging up on Stalin
-Stalin blocked off food supply from West Germany - 11NATO 1949-An alliance set up to protect the West from the USSR
-Alliance between USA and Western European countries
-NATO would protect each other from USSR - 12Hungarian Uprising 1956-Nagy announced Hungary would be leaving Warsaw Pact
-Raised hope until Nagy killed and Russia in charge of all countries behind 'Curtain'
-Communist government re-established
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