topic 1

• ideological differences

  communism (soviet union), capitalism (USA)
• grand alliance

  • conferences:
  • tehran 1943
  • yalta 1945
  • potsdam 1945
  • tehran + yalta- stalin, roosevelt, churchill
  • potsdam- stalin, truman, churchill
• soviet satellites

  countries controlled by the ussr
• iron curtain speech, 1946

  • churchill
  • communist east divided from capitalist west
• long telegram, 1946

  • george kennan
  • containment- stop communism spreading- us policy
• novikov telegram, 1946

  • novikov
  • accused USA of trying to achieve world dominance
• the truman doctrine

  us policy of containment, 1947
• the marshall plan, 1947

  economic aid to europe
• cominform

  enable soviet union to co-ordinate communist parties throughout europe
• comecon

  council for mutual assistance, soviet union could financially support countries in eastern europe
• berlin crisis

  • 1948-49
  • germany divided into 4 zones
  • berlin blockade and airlift
  • led to the creation of NATO
• the formation of nato, 1949

  • western military alliance to prevent soviet expansion
• the warsaw pact, 1955

  soviet union military alliance of eight nations
• the arms race

  • competition of weapons
  • spending more money on them
• sputnik

  • 1957
  • soviet rocket launched a satellite
• the hungarian uprising, 1956

  • hungarians, led by imre nagy, revolted against soviet control under khrushchev, but they were crushed by the soviets
• international reaction

  west avoided soviets + were preoccupied with suez crisis