cold war

• truman doctrine

  • promised 400mil to aid greece and turkey

  •Labelled communism as evil

  •truman was prepared to stop spread if communism by force 


  truman doctrine

  how much money did it promise?

  to who?

  what did truman label communism as?

  what did he say he was prepared to do?
• berlin blockade - stalin wanted berlin under his control, but the allies had agreed that they could use west berlin as an escape route from east germany. Stalin cut off all supplies going into west berlin. Truman responded with the Berlin Airlift which lasted 11 months until soviet union gave up.
• atlee,truman and stalin had the postdam confrence in 1945

  they divided germany into four zones. truman didn't tell stalin about the bomb so russia mad

  america felt threatened as communism spreading in europe
• • truman doctrine promised 400 mil to aid greece and turkey
  • truman labelled communism as evil
  • truman was prepared to stop communism by force
• hungarian uprising causes

  • poverty
  • communist banned religion
  • promises from usa gave them hope
  • hated russian control
  • destanalisation
  • hungarians hated commism
• name 3 causes of hungarian uprising

  poverty , communism , russian control
• hungarian uprising events

  • imre nagy took over as prime minister
  • he asked to remove russian troops
  • kruschev agrees to remove troops
  • introduces new government and freedom of speech and religion
  • nagy announced hungary leaving warsaw pact
  • 1000 russian tanks rolled into budapest
  • 4000 hungarians killed
• what did imre nagy introduce

  freedom of speech and religion
• what did imre nagy announce

  hungary was leaving warsaw pact
• tehran conference

  • USA would declare war on japan when germany loses
  • USA and UK should help on westernt front
  • "big three" agreed on splitting germany
• yalta confrence

  • ideas of germany being split into 4
  • agreement of setting up united nations
  • nazi party banned
  • stalin said to have sphere of influence on eastern europe with communist ideas
• what where there ideas of (YALTA CONFERENCE)

  splitting germany into three
• what was there an agreement of (YALTA CONFERENCE)


  setting up of united nations
• dollar imperialism

  • USA were trying to "take over world" with capatlism
  • stalin introduces cominform and comecon
  • labelled marshal plan as dollar imperialism
• marshal plan

  • introduced 13 billion to countries that needed support after WW2
  • aim was to let european countries recover so they wouldn't fall into comunism
  • was said to be a "lifeline"
• what did soviets say usa was trying to do (dollar imperialism)

  take over the world with capitalism
• who was marshal plan created for and why

  european countries so they could financially recover and not fall into communism
• cominform was a group of ten communist countries that could only trade with eachover
• comecon was a five year plan for each country on how to improve economy and production