CW topic 1

• when was the Tehran conference

  November 1943
• what happened at the Tehran conference

  First meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

  Main topic was opening a second front in France - Stalin agreed to open front against Japan once Germany was defeated
• when was the Yalta conference

  February 1945
• what happened at the Yalta conference


  Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones governed by France, U.S., Soviets, and Great Britain and the eastern countries were given to Stalin and had to have free elections
• when was the Potsdam conference

  July 1945
• what happened at the Potsdam conference

  With Truman, Atlee, and Stalin to agree on boundaries in Berlin however no true progress was made as Truman and Stalin did not get along, as Stalin felt pressured as Truman announced their new nuclear weapon
• what was the Grand Alliance

  the alliance between the United Kingdom, United States, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany during World War II
• when was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  6th August 1945
• what percent of Hiroshima was destroyed

  60%
• how many people died at Hiroshima

  140,000
• what were the affects of the dropping of the atomic bomb

  Blindness, Radiation poisoning, and death
• how were soviet-American relations affected because of the atom bomb

  the USSR were not happy the USA would not share information of the atom bomb
• what plane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  Enola Gay
• what was the bomb called that dropped on Hiroshima

  Little Boy
• who was the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

  Paul Tibbets Jr
• what time was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  8:15 AM
• when was the Novikov Telegram

  September 1946
• what was the Novikov Telegram

  Nikolai V. Novikov a USSR diplomat reported the USA desired to dominate the world and that following Roosevelts death, the US wasn't interested in co-operation with USSR. USA public was being prepared for war with USSR
• when was the Long telegram

  February 1946
• what was the Long Telegram

  George Kennan, a US diplomat stationed in Moscow, sent a telegram back to Washington describing Soviet government and saying that the US and Soviet Union could not coexist
• what was a satellite state

  They had their own governments, but their leaders were controlled by the Soviet Union
• what were the satellite states

  Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and East Germany
• when was Albania made a satellite state

  1945 as a communist puppet governments took over after WWII
• when was Bulgaria made a satellite state

  1946 as the Bulgarian monarchy was abolished leaving a puppet communist government to be elected who slowly eradicated opponents
• when was East Germany made a satellite state

  1945 as Germany was split at the Yalta conference
• when was Romania made a satellite state

  1945 as a communist government was elected and slowly eradicated opponents and abolished the Romanian monarchy
• when was Poland made a satellite state

  1947 Stalin invited the 16 non-communist politicians to Moscow where they were arrested and communist opposition was removed
• when was Hungary made a satellite state

  1948 a communist politician Rakoski took control of the secret police, killing all opposition so communist control was assured
• when was Czechoslovakia made a satellite state

  1948 there elections were only allowed communists so communist control was assured
• what was the Iron Curtain

  A metaphorical separation between eastern and western Europe
• who made the idea of the Iron Curtain

  Winston Churchill
• when was the Truman Doctrine made

  March 12, 1947
• what was the Truman Doctrine


  announced he would provide economic help to countries being threatened by communism
• when was the Marshall plan made

  1947
• what was the Marshall plan

  the economic recovery package of aid from the United States to western Europe to prevent them from falling to communism even sending military aid
• when was Cominform made

  September 1947
• what was Cominform


  Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) was an alliance of European communist parties to help them plan and to work together and spread Stalin's ideas
• when was Comecon made

  1949
• what was Comecon


  Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Aid) was set up to coordinate the production and trade of the eastern European communist countries
• when was Roosevelt president

  1933-1945