How long was the cold War?
1945 until 1991
What is a superpower?
A major nation that is significantly more powerful than others economically, military, diplomatically and technologically
What was the Paris Peace conference?
Gave Russian land to other countries
What is the policy of appeasement?
A foreign policy strategy of granting concessions and making sacrifices to an aggressive foreign power to avoid direct conflict and maintain peace.
When did Germany invade the USSR?
June 1941
What presidents were at the Atlantic charter?
President Roosevelt and President Churchill
What were the agreements at the Atlantic charter?
All the colonies would become independent so that the USA could have free access of trade
Churchill would help fight Germany and Italy
There was an agreement of the vision of the post war world
When was the attack on Pearl Habour?
December 1941
Where would Britain and America invade in the Tehran conference?
France
When was the Tehran Conference?
November 1943
When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945
When was the Potsdam Conference?
July, August 1945
Who attended the Yalta Conference?
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Who replaced Roosevelt?
Harry S. Truman
Who replaced Churchill?
Clement Attlee
Who attended the Potsdam Conference?
Stalin, Attlee, Truman
What was the date of the end of WWII?
2 September 1945
Why did the USA and the UK agree to the communist government in Poland?
To get Stalin to cooperate on other issues
What was the Allied Control Council?
It was set up to govern occupied Germany
Why was Stalin very adamant to extract reparations from Germany?
The war had completely exhausted the Russian economy
What was the new front line of the defensive system for Stalin?
Germany
What is the Truman Doctrine?
To provide military and economic aid to any country threatened by communism or any totalitarian ideology
What is the Marshall Plan?
An attempt to rebuild the economies of Western Europe to eliminate the dire economic conditions that might encourage people to turn to communism
What was the OEEC?
Countries in Western Europe that accepted aid through the Marshall Plan
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French Revolution75
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