Broadwater School KS4 History
SPR Quick Quiz: Causes of the Cold War (I)
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In 1945 the two superpowers were the USA and the USSR.
USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The USA was a capitalist country.
The USSR was a communist country.
The WW2 “big three” were Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
A conference was held at Yalta before the end of the war.
At Yalta it was agreed that Eastern Europe should be in the USSR’s sphere of
influence.
8. The big three agreed that free elections should be held in countries freed from German
control.
9. The Potsdam Conference was held after the defeat of Germany.
10. At Potsdam the leaders were Clement Atlee, Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman.
11. Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe to protect the USSR from attack.
12. Control of Poland was important to Stalin because the USSR had been attacked
through Poland by the Germans in 1914 and 1941.
13. Stalin wanted a divided Germany to keep it weak and to protect the USSR.
14. Stalin placed friendly communist governments in control of Eastern Europe.
15. The “percentages deal” was where Churchill and Stalin agreed on the future control of
Europe.
16. Greece and Turkey were in the western sphere of influence.
17. Britain had to pull out of supporting the Greek monarchy against communism.
18. The “Truman Doctrine” was a promise to protect the world from communism.
19. Marshall Aid was money and equipment from the USA to aid European recovery.
20. Stalin scared the British and Americans by rigging elections in the countries occupied
by the Red Army.
21. Winston Churchill coined the phrase “Iron Curtain” to describe the division of Europe
into a communist controlled East and free West after 1945.
22. Germany was divided into two by the Iron Curtain”.
23. Stalin saw the American Atomic Bomb, Marshall Aid and the Truman Doctrine and
Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech as a threat.
24. Stalin believed that the USA wanted to destroy communism and to take economic
control of Europe.
25. Truman believed that Stalin wanted to take control of all of Europe and to make the
USA and Europe communist.