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GCSE/ A Level History key knowledge to all students who are going to be taking their exams this year. This Booklet: Part 1 is extremely useful with the most important events and people who were involved in the Cold War. This helped me get through my exam and I achieved an A in 2015. Hard work pays off.

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Cold War Revision




Communism
A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the
community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and
needs.
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are
controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

, Causes of The Cold War

War Depths
The Russians pulled out of World War One in 1818 and refused to honour th war
debts as it was an imperialist war.

Non Aggression Pact
In August 1939, Stalin signed a Pact with Hitler that guaranteed that neither would
invade the other. Other European countries followed Appeasement. The US saw this
as the work of two similar dictators.

Totalitarianism
The nature of Stalin's regime was a cause for concern, the Purges of the 1930s, Gulag
and the living conditions of many Russians disturbed the Liberal West.

Russian Civil War 1918-1921
Soon after the Revolution in Russia, there was a period of civil war where the
“Whites” fought with the “Reds” the communists. The Whites tried to prevent the
Bolsheviks consolidating their power. Western powers such as France, Britain, Japan,
Finland and the USA backed the Whites and some of the powers sent armies to
support them.

The Wartime Conferences

Tehran Conference- November 1943
Joseph Stalin- USSR
Winston Churchill- UK
Franklin Roosevelt- USA

Stalin demanded the creation of a Second Front in Western Europe.
Soviets demanded the right to keep territory they had seized between 1939-1940. The
UK and USA reluctantly agreed, despite this being against the Atlantic Charter.
The USA and the UK tried to convince Stalin to open up a Soviet Second Front in
Asia. Stalin refused until the war with Germany was won.

Positive Outcome- Agreement on the United Nations and on the need for a weak
post-war Germany.

Yalta Conference- February 1945
Joseph Stalin- USSR
Winston Churchill- UK
Franklin Roosevelt- USA

Germany would be disarmed, demilitarised, de-Nazified and divided into four zones.
Stalin agreed that Eastern Europe would be able to have free elections. This was seen
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