development of cold war

• Who were the big three at the Tehran conference and what was agreed?

  The big three were: stalin, roosevelt and churchil.It was agreed that britain and USA would open up a second fighting front.It was agreed that poland would receive land from germany.
• Who were the big three at Yalta and what was agreed?

  The big three were Stalin, roosevelt and Churchill.It was agreed to give free elections to poland.Germany would be split into 4 zones.Germany would pay reparations.Eastern Europe would be a Sphere of influence for the Soviet Union.The Soviet Union to fight in the war against Japan.
• Who were the big three at potsdam.

  Stalin, Truman and Attlee.
• Why did Potsdam escalate tension?

  No common enemy, no free elections in Eastern Europe had been granted, Truman was more aggressive and the A bomb had been revealed.
• Name the two telegrams sent in 1946

  Novikov and Long telegram.
• What speech did winston Churchill make in 1946 that warned of Soviet expansionism?

  Iron curtain speech
• What is Soviet expansionism?

  The spreading of communism in eastern Europe
• What did Stalin call Churchill after the iron curtain speech.

  A war monger/ hitler
• Stalin was convinced the west were against him because he was ...

  Paranoid?
• Why did Stalin decide to blockade Berlin?

  The allies joined their zones together to create bizonia.
• What country nearly fell to communism in 1947 when the British said they could not afford to station troops there?

  Greece
• Define Truman Doctrine

  The promise to contain the spread of communism
• Define the Marshall Plan

  a plan to help Europe economically by offering 17 billion dollars in aid.
• The Truman doctrine led to Comecon. What is Comecon?

  An organisation that allowed the ussr to coordinate communist economies.
• The Truman doctrine led to cominform. What is cominform?

  Cominform was an organisation that allowed the ussr to coordinate and control communist parties in its sphere of influence.
• Western military alliance formed in 1949

  NATO
• Eastern military alliance formed in 1955

  Warsaw Pact
• A competition to develop greater weapons

  Nuclear arms race
• A delivery system that allows missiles to travel far

  ICBM
• The first nuclear bomb developed in 1945

  The Abomb
• The year the USSR developed their Abomb

  1949
• The more powerful nuclear bomb developed by the USA in 1952

  The H bomb
• The year the Soviet Union developed the Hbomb

  1953
• Who was the hard lined leader of Hungary before 1953?

  Rakosi
• Who replaced Rakosi as leader of Hungary?

  Imre Nagy
• Who replaced Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union?

  Nikita Khrushchev
• What did Khrushchev say he wanted to do in the secret speech?

  De-Stalinise
• What reform from Nagy was seen as going too far

  Leaving the warsaw pact
• How many Hungarians were killed in the Hungarian uprising

  20,000