Conferences
When did the western Allies open the Second Front?
June 1944
What is Salami Tactics?
The practice of taking over the governments of East European countries by 'slicing' off one party after another until only the Soviet supported party was left
McCarthyism is also known as
The Red Scare
When did Japan annex the Korean peninsula?
1910
What school has said it?
Capitalism is BY NATURE aggressive. Businessmen WANT to dominate the world market, and think it is good to want to do so. After 1946 American businessmen had the American government enthusiastically behind them. And together they set about systematically destroying ‘the opposition’ – which, in global terms, meant the Soviet Union .
It was American capitalism that caused the Cold War, and it had the additional advantage that the Communists (since they used political means to assert themselves) could so easily be made to look oppressive and tyrannical. They didn’t stand a chance.
Revisionist
Where did Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet for the FIRST time in a war-time conference?
Tehran
Why did the Russian occupied zone of Germany become much poorer than the other occupation zones after 1945?
Stalin took all its valuable resources back to Russia as reparations.
McCarthyism targeted which groups?
Teachers, Hollywood celebrities, government employees
Why was Korea divided at the 38th parallel in 1945?
To organise the surrender of the Japanese troops
What school has said it?
It seems almost irreverent to say so – given the millions of people who died because of it – but the whole Cold War thing was no more than a lack of communication. Both sides decided at Potsdam that the other was impossible, and they just stopped talking to each other. As soon as Kennedy installed the hotline, the Cold War ceased to be a threat to humanity. And the Cold War didn’t end with the collapse of Communism in 1991; it ended long before that, when Gorbachev and Reagan started being honest with each other.
Post revisionist
What WAS agreed regarding Germany at the Potsdam Conference?
That Germany should be divided as agreed at Yalta and disarmed and denazified
Which event triggered the Berlin Blockade and Airlift in June 1948?
The introduction of a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, in Berlin.
Senator McCarthy's popularity went down because he began to target..
the US Army
What did Syngman Rhee and Kim Il Sung have in common?
They were both nationalists who sought the unification of Korea
What school has said it?
Leninism and totalitarianism created a structure of thought and behavior which made postwar collaboration between Russian and America impossible- in any sense of civilized intercourse between national states- inherently impossible.
Orthodox
What country caused a lot of discussion between the Big Three?
Poland
The Berlin Airlift was an example of which policy?
Containment
This group of "Hollywood" producers and executives went to jail for their stance against McCarthyism
Hollywood 10
Why was the Security Council of the UN able to pass a resolution condemning this attack?
The USSR was boycotting the UN and so unable to veto
What school has said it?
On any rational assessment, the USSR presented no immediate danger to anyone outside the reach of the Red Army's occupation forces. It emerged from war in ruins, drained and exhausted, its peacetime economy in shreds, its government distrustful of a population, which at times showed a lack of commitment to the regime.
Post Revisionist
How many Russian troops stayed in Eastern Europe at the end of the war?
6 million
In the ten months of the Airlift, approximately how many people were kept alive and how many tons of supplies were flown into West Berlin?
2 million people, 2 million tons of supplies
The HUAC stands for...
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The UN quickly succeeded in defending South Korean from the invasion. What happened next?
UN troops continued North with the aim of uniting Korea
What school has said it?
The Cold War was a great power conflict between the two geo-politically dominant powers which emerged from the Second World War. ‘The Cold War was caused by the rise of Soviet power and the fear this caused in the West’.
Post revisionist