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Based on Cambridge IGCSE history. This file contains notes on the entire IR sections including: the cold war, Yalta, Iron curtain, the Marshall Plan, Korea, Cuba, the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive, Soviet control and the end of the USA. Part of a series of history topic notes. Student who made them achieved an A.

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Why did a cold wa r breakout after WWII ?




1) During WWIl the US & USSR(Union of Soviet Socialist Repubid) we re allies fighting against Nazi
Germany
2) By 1945 ,
the US & USSR we re the world's superpowers & the defeat of Germany n ow exposed Key Ideological beliefs




USA : USSR :




Capitalist Communist the state
-




Business & all owned &
:

property privately owned :
industry wa s
by
-

we re run




Democracy its government One
party dictatorship. Elections but all candidates belonged to the
-




free held
-



: wa s chosen in were




democracy elections communist
party
-




It wa s the world's wealthiest country
.
In m o s t It was an economic superpower because its
industry had rapidly in the 1920s &
grown


capitalist countries ,
there were extremes -
some people 1930s but ,
in
general Standard living in the USSR wa s much lower than in the USA.




we re
very wealthy while others we re
very poor Unemployment wa s r a re & extreme
poverty was r a re r than in the USA




Which image of the Yalta conference is correct?




Photos of the Yalta conference , February 1945 ,
with Churchill Roosevelt & Stalin
,
can
suggest a variety of outcomes .


The conference agreement
·




saw little cooperation or




There was close co-operation & plenty agreed

There we re divisions
emerging especially between
,
western leaders & Stalin

, Agreements at Yalta :


Japan : Stalin agreed to enter the wa r
against Japan once
Germany had surrended



Germany :
They agreed that
Germany would be divided into four Zones : American ,
French
,
British & Soviet


Elections They agreed liberated from occupation by the German the
that as countries were
they would be allowed to hold free elections to choose
:
army ,


government they wanted


United Nations the
big three to join
: the new UN organisation ,
which would aim to keep peace after the wa r




War criminals The three punish criminals who responsible for genocide
:
big would wa r we re




Eastern Europe : The
big three agreed that the eastern Europe should be seen as 'Soviet Sphere of Influence' The Soviet Union


Suffered terribly in the wa r
, losing
-
20 million Soviets Stalin was concerned about future security of the USSR




Disagreements at Yalta


-disagreements ove r Polish border and the movement Westwards of the lines



Stalin wanted the border of the USSR to m ove westwards into Poland


Churchil didn't approve but knew there wasn't much could do
they




p87 Sources-IGCSE
History

Source 5 :

'They will n eve r accept the idea that so
great a space should be red
,
n eve r never
,
!


disagreement & mistrust of Roosevelt & Churchil to Stalin


Source 6 'I have
always
: worked for friendship with Russia but like I
you , feel deep
,
anxiety because of their misinterpretation of the Yalta decisions s ...


Churchill mistrust towards stalin



Source 7: 'Perhaps think that just because we a re allies of the English we have
forgotten who they & who Churchill is .
you are




Stalin's mistrust towards Churchill

Source 8 : 'The Soviet Union has become a
danger to the free world .



Churchill writing to Roosevelt to express Suspicion towards Stalin


Source 9 : 'While Stalin behaved with relative discretion with Roosevelt, he continually teased Churchill throughout the wa r !


Stalin respects Roosevelt Stalin ,
is
suspicious of Churchill

, The Potsdam Conference :




·



In May 1945 three months after the Yalta conference the
, ,
wa r in Europe wa s wo n




·


The allied leaders met 1945
in
July
·


The allied leaders were Stalin Atlee and Truman .
,




Disagreements at Potsdam :




Stalin threats Truman did not want
wanted to cripple Germany to protect the USSR against future repeat mistake of
Treaty of Versailles .
·




.
to the



Reparations Stalin wanted
Germany
·



: enormous economic reparations from as compensations for the destruction wrought in the Soviet Union . Truman



disagreed insisting ,
that reparations should be exacted by the
occupying powers only from their ow n occupation zone .




Agreements at Potsdam :




Germany would Americans British , French & Soviets well Berlin be divided into four of occupation
·



be occupied by , ,
as as zones



Germany would be demilitarised & disarmed .
·




German industry capable of being used for military purposes was to be dismantled & the defeated country's educational and judicial systems

to be
purged of Nazi influence .

·




Nazi racial laws & other legislation we re to be repealed & wa r criminals tried & punished .
·




German society wa s to be reshaped on democratic lines , in the meantime , Germany would be run
by the four occupying powers.

Poland for its Germany (Borders
·




: in exchange territory lost to the Soviet Union
,
Poland wa s to be compensated in the west by large a re a s of


were moved west)

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