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What was the February 1945 conference?

- Allied forced could see that World War 2 would soon end


- the “big three” (Stalin, FDR, Churchill) net at Yalta


- Attempted to plan how the war would end and the future for postwar Europe


- they planned to re draw the map of Europe

What are the key points from Yalta?

- the surrender of Nazi Germany, Germany would undergo demilitarization and denazification


- Germany and Berlin would split into four occupied zones


- nazi war criminals were to be hunted down and brought to justice


- German reparations were to be in form of forced labour


- Stalin tried to request 16 soviet socialist republics to U.N membership, but 14 republics were denied


- a Committee on Dismemberment of Germany was to be set up to decide whether Germany was to be divided into 6 nations

What did the Allies agree to in Potsdam?

- to divide Germany and Austria into American, British, French, and Soviet zones of occupation


- for an allowance of free elections in Poland


- the Germans would pay 20 billion dollars in reparations to the Allies


- to restructure the German economy to agriculture and light industry, and limit military production


- that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific war against japan

What were the two ideologies conflicting within the Cold War and what did the countries want to avoid?

- USA and Soviet Union between East and West wanted to avoid another shooting war and the USA had an atomic bomb to use as a bargaining chip


- it was an economic, political, and social struggle of communism and capitalist competing ideologies

What are spheres of influence and give an example regarding World War 2?

- sphere of influence are those countries or territories over which a more power country dominates (but does not control)


- each country sought to expand their spheres of influence in the wake of the war

What is the iron curtain?

- the iron curtain symbolizes the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas

What is NATO bad how did it view the iron curtain?

- NATO includes the US and Western Democracies


- viewed the concept of the iron curtain as a barrier meant to contain those oppressed by communism and....


- a restriction to civil and economic freedoms

What was the Soviets alternative to the American Aid?

- the soviets proposed the Molotov Plan


- was bilateral trade agreements that helped to consolidate the economies of socialist countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, east Germany)


- helped to solidify Soviet preceded in Europe

How did countries during WW2 help work towards national security?

- countries began to look for new alliances for financial/military aid (some for shared ideologies and some for increased national security)


- western countries banded together for national security through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

How did countries during WW2 help work towards national security?

- countries began to look for new alliances for financial/military aid (some for shared ideologies and some for increased national security)


- western countries banded together for national security through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

How did Eastern And Western countries solidify collective security?

- nato formed their alliance to ensure collective security


- all member nations agreed to counter attack anyone who attacked any member nation


- the Soviet Union and other communist countries responded by forming the Warsaw Pact


- They also formed the Molotov plan into the council for mutual economic assistance (COMECON)

How did Stalin justify expansionism?

- he wanted to keep Germany divided


- he wanted to maintain or expand Soviet influence to surrounding nations including Finland, Poland, and used Romania as a buffer zone for the safety of the Soviet Union

How did the US use containment and what doctrine was created and why?

- President Truman believed every nation had to choose between an ideology, but he believed capitalism was the inferior choice


- limited the spread of communism through containment


- the “Truman Doctrine” was centred around sending money/aid to Greece and Turkey to help them fight communism in their countries (to contain it)

What was the Marshall Plan and the conditions of it?

- the Marshall Plan contained 13 billion in aid for all European countries that qualified


- to get aid countries had to balance their budgets, stop inflation, and stabilize exchange rates


- countries also had to get rid of trade restrictions, decontrol prices and redid nationalizing industries