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IEB MATRIC
HISTORY
NOTES

,Cold war
A cold between
hostility
war refers to a stare or nations

with our actual
fighting
The threar of nuclear
technology prevented open warfare
ideological struggle between superpowers
economical and

this time
mass
technological and
general advancements made in

due to the competition in all facers of the countries .




causes
rension
during
wwll

who would rake control of eastern europe after it is rid of the Nazi's

unsrable
very politically and
economically
Russian soldiers liberated these countries and took control



D-day I
normandy landing
was
delayed
. Russia was the

the Stalin felt this
main contributor to war
delay was deliberate
.




to weaken the USSR
(they were
losing the most soldiers and
raking
the
damage to infastructure.
Do day was
delayed due to

the other allies
being unprepared for this .
When it did happen
it was a
large success and
turning point in the war


USA suspended me lend-lease which provided Soviers
programme wit

essential resources

USA the bomb
secrecy surrounding aromic

USSR rook infastructure
on a low of the
damage as well as mass casualties

beliefs
ideological
a murual mistrust developed both threated the
as
systems
others of life
way
West

dislikedRoralitarian policies of Stalin forced labour enc
resulting
in
purges ,




Nazi-Sorier
(Aug 1939) prevented from
Non-aggression pack
germany
invading the soviet union later
ignored
-




Soviet
Western support of the whire in me civil war
army

, Paris peace conference (1919) Russian land
gave away
Sovier exclusion from the Munich Conference (1938)

aims
>
USA
-




security
post-war settlement

European independent governments
no war- UN
>
USSR
-




expansion
security
[due to previous invasions and political instability
France under Napolean & Germany
Spread or communism

wharro do with
Germany after will
>
-





America and Britain did not want to repear the



errors of the
treary of versailles
User felt deserved reperations
they
USSR
security
convinced the

west wanted
destroy communism

sarelive States- USSR has influence on these
great
countries due to their communist leaders

[Yugoslavia
USSR
is a
special case as

communist
it is independent from
despire being
& low of previous political unrest - Bolshevik revolution (1917) and me

Civil war mar followed

Tehran Conferance
1993 in Iran
USA-Roosevelt
Britain-Churchill
USSR-Stalin
it there be front
was decided would
delay the second
leaving
a in


use to
right alone in eastern europe [D-day happens in 1969 June]
USA however
Japan
they
was ar a war with are dependent on


USSR for support to win this war

, the end of the war was not in
sight as well as America's war
against Japan
front but Britain did
Stalin had
previously requested a Western Europe nor feel
strong enough

prefered aerial Dombardment

Stalin suspected his was a more to weaken the USSR

for
Agreed Britain to invade france in
may
1999

USSR would declare war on Japan adver
defecting Germany wanted asian
territory (nor final til Yalra]
-




Yalra conferance
feb 1945

in crimed

war is
going to end soon and
Germany is most
likely going
to lose

tensions between USA and USSR arise
again
Successes

Germany was to be divided into + of occupation however there
·
zones

was no formal on the of
agreement system government
Berlin would also be divided despite being in the USSR section
people have
in the zones
previously occupied by Germany were to
·




free and fair elections and a Polish Provisional Government of

national uni would be set up
Nazi
·
would be trial
criminals pur on trial
neurenberg
and the
penalty was jail or dealh

European counties up democratic
·


Assist ser
self-governing gous

maintain law and order

relief measures
emergency
↳ hold elections (Declaration of Liberated Europe)
·

ser up commission to reparations
a
investigate
successful their plans for the future
seemingly
as were

however no
agreement
on the reperations for Germany
a lot of me
agreements were in favour of Russia as us [Roosevelt] wanted help in

the Pacific
↳ 2-3 monus after German defeat
Russia would also
fight Japan
↳ Return :
Norm Korea & Manchuria

Russia to join un


There was a lot of
controversy around usin and me elections in Eastern Europe
↳ Poland elections pur a communist
regime in power
:

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