Tensions within the Grand Alliance

Stalin was considering a secrate peace with Germany as late as when?

Stalin suspected the Allies of letting Hitler destroy the Soviet Union with their decision not to invade [blank_start]France[blank_end] until [blank_start]1944[blank_end]. by [blank_start]May[blank_end] 1945 [blank_start]25[blank_end] Million Russians had been killed. To protect against future German attack the USSR wanted to reclaim German and Polish land from beyond the river [blank_start]Oder[blank_end] and to annex the [blank_start]Baltic[blank_end] states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and [blank_start]Bessarabia[blank_end].

by [blank_start]1944[blank_end] Stalin's vision for postwar Europe was divided in [blank_start]three[blank_end]: Direct Soviet control of its immediate [blank_start]buffer[blank_end] states [blank_start]Bulgaria, Romania, Poland[blank_end] and a [blank_start]Soviet[blank_end] zone of [blank_start]Germany[blank_end]. an Intmideate zone with [blank_start]coalition[blank_end] governments of Communists and [blank_start]liberal[blank_end], and [blank_start]socialist peasant[blank_end] parties: [blank_start]Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia[blank_end], and [blank_start]Finland[blank_end].This would be the '[blank_start]bridge[blank_end]' to a non-communist western europe.

The view that America was too busy fighting the war against Japan and Germany to worry about the shape of postwar Europe is typical of a revisionist historian in the 1960s and 1970s.

[blank_start]Melvyn Leffler[blank_end] argues that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on the [blank_start]7[blank_end]th [blank_start]December[blank_end] 19[blank_start]41[blank_end] made America feel vulnerable to threats of foreign powers. Consequently in [blank_start]1943-4[blank_end] US officials drew up plans for a chain of bases that would let the US control both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This would also give the US access to trade [blank_start]raw[blank_end] materials from [blank_start]Europe[blank_end] and Asia. US actions alarmed [blank_start]Stalin[blank_end] and helped create a [blank_start]spiral of distrust[blank_end].

FDRs economic ambitions of a large Free Trade area, where tariffs and economic nationilism were abolished was inspired by which president?

What did the US want of other countries in postwar Europe?

In 1941 FDR and Churchill drew up an [blank_start]Atlantic Charter[blank_end], a democratic world order to be underpinned by [blank_start]the UN[blank_end]. FDR's vison was of an assembly were all countries would be represented and a [blank_start]security council[blank_end] on which would sit, China, Britain, [blank_start]France[blank_end], America and Russia.

What were Britain's Aims in 1944?

in the Foreign Ministers Meeting of October 1943 in Moscow, what was decided by the big three?

At which conference did Churchill, FDR and Stalin meet to discuss the following points: - The USSR claimed its intention to annex territory seized in the Baltic and Poland (Poland would be compensated with German land) - The decision to land Commonwealth and US troops in France as opposed to in the Balkans as Churchill wanted - acceptance that western powers would liberate western Europe and the USSR would liberate eastern Europe

October 1944 - Churchill and Stalin meet in Moscow to propose a division of spheres of intrest. Which of the following where Churchill and Stalin's Percentages agreements?

Churchill dropped the percentegese agreement because he knew FDR would not aprove it.