Pregunta | Respuesta |
When was the Yalta Conference? | February 1945 |
When was the Potsdam Conference? | July - August 1945 |
When was the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima? | 6th August 1945 |
When did Churchill give the 'Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton, Missouri? | 5th March 1946 |
When was the Truman Doctrine launched? | 1947 March |
When was the Marshall plan established? | June 1947 |
What happened in February 1948? | Communist Coup in Czechoslovakia |
When did the Berlin Blockade begin? | June 1948 |
When was NATO established? | April 1949 |
When did the Berlin Blockade end? | May 1949 |
When did the big three first meet together? | Teheran in November 1943. |
What did they discuss at Tehran conference? | Issues concerning Poland, opening the second front |
To what extent had relations between the super powers broken down by the end of 1944? | The seeds of the Cold War were in place. Nazi Germany started to create a power vacuum in Europe which led to both countries drawn to protect their own interests. Tensions were kept at a minimum because neither country took on a world role in the period before 1941. |
When was the Bolshevik Revolution? | 1917 |
Why had Stalin not wanted to meet Roosevelt and Churchill until 1943? | Stalin did not want to commit himself to the specifics until the German summer offensive at Kursk had been dealt with |
Why was Teheran chosen as the place to hold the conference? | Location was neutral for US, UK and Russia to meet and also there were involvements of Egypt and China so was a good logistic point |
When did Stalin die? | 5th March 1953 |
When did the Korean war start? | 25th June 1950 |
What was the effect of WW2 ? | The war had resulted in the defeat of Nazi Germany . Germany had conquered most of the continent of Europe. The defeat left large areas of Europe without any meaningful government. |
What was the effect of WW2 economically? | Left much of Europe economically devastated. The industrial heart of Europe had been laid waste and over 16 million people were left homeless. |
How did the USA emerge from the war as a superpower ? | It produced over 50% of the worlds manufacturing output, owned a navy as big as the rest of the world's navies put together and was in sole possession of the atomic bomb. |
What state was the USSR In after the Cold war? | State of economic hardship 1945 Red Army of over 11 million troops occupied most of Eastern Europe: it was in a position to enforce its will on large parts of the continent |
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