Summary The Cold War - GCSE History Revision

The Cold War

,Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Consequences :
- The Grand Alliance = USA, USSR, Britain
- Its purpose was to defeat the axis at the end of WW2 - Tehran
- USSR joining war against Japan
- Yalta
- The division of Germany and Berlin
- Tehran (1943) - Potsdam
- The breakdown of the Grand Alliance
- A second front would be opened by invading France
- The USSR would join the war against Japan



- Yalta (Feb 1945)
- Agreements
- Germany to be divided into 4 zones
- Berlin divided into 4 zones
- Disagreements
- The West wanted free elections in Poland which Stalin did not like



- Potsdam (July 1945)
- New leaders (Truman for the US, Attlee for UK)
- Truman = not willing to negotiate with Stalin
- Agreements
- USSR to gain eastern Poland
- Disagreements
- Stalin wanted harsh reparations from Germany but the West did not agree

, Long and Novikov Telegrams Consequences

Long
- Long Telegram - Policy of containment
- It was to Truman from Kennan (an American ambassador in - Breakdown of US-USSR
Moscow)
relations
- Said that
- Stalin had given a speech about destroying capitalism
Novikov
- This led to
- The creation of satellite
- The USA’s policy of containing communism
states
- The breakdown of the
Grand Alliance
- The Novikov Telegram
- It was to Stalin from Novikov (Russia’s ambassador in
Washington)
- Said that
- America desired to dominate the world
- America was no longer interested in cooperating with the
USSR
- This led to
- The creation of satellite states (e.g. Romania)
- There were rigged elections and intimidation of people