Yalta
the big three
Who is USA UK and USSR
The Potsdam Conference took place during these two months in the year 1945.
What are July and August?
Popularised by Winston Churchill in 1946, this political metaphor described the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into democratic and communist blocs.
What is the Iron Curtain
The first peace conference after ww2 where the Big Three discussed how to punish the Nazis across Europe and to redraw borders in Europe
Yalta conference
Salami tactics / Eastern Bloc
In exchange for territorial rights in Asia, Stalin promised to enter the war against this country within three months of Germany's surrender.
Who is Japan
At Potsdam, the Allies agreed to divide defeated Germany into this specific number of occupation zones.
What is four?
This military strategy relies on the threat of nuclear retaliation, where both sides are discouraged from attacking because it would result in the complete destruction of both.
M>A>D
Mutually assured destruction
The post-war conference that is credited with officialising the Arms race, issuing conditions of Japan's surrender.
Potsdam conference
This economic ideology advocates for private ownership of industry, free markets, and individual profit, serving as the foundational system of the United States
Capitalism
Leaders representing the big three at Yalta
Franklin D. Roosevelt for the United States
Winston Churchill for the United Kingdom
Joseph Stalin for the USSR
Leaders representing the big three at Potsdam
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee)
U.S. President Harry Truman
When a VCE question uses this command term, you must give a clear, precise definition or state the exact meaning of a Cold War concept.
What is define?
Japan's reaction to trade sanctions and an embargo being placed on them by the USA. Citing feeling like being a "trapped mouse" to USA's "cat"
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor
This political and economic ideology aims for a classless society where the state owns all property and means of production, championed by the Soviet Union.
What is communism (or Marxism-Leninism)?
This nation's borders were heavily redrawn at Yalta, pushing its territory westward into Germany to appease Soviet demands, while its Western-backed government in exile was largely abandoned.
Who is Poland
President Truman casually informed Joseph Stalin about this powerful new U.S. weapon during the conference
What is the atomic bomb?
This command term requires you to provide a detailed account or narrative of a Cold War event's features, rather than explaining why it happened
What is described?
This is the official, formal name of the 1948 American initiative commonly known as the Marshall Plan.
What is the European Recovery Program (or ERP)
Established by the USSR in 1949 as a direct response to the Marshall Plan, this economic alliance bound Soviet satellite states to Moscow and restricted their trade with the West.
What is COMECON (or the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)?
This strategic Soviet port city and railroad hub in Manchuria was promised to Stalin as a secret concession for entering the Pacific War, sparking later American domestic political backlash.
What is Port Arthur
Following the death of FDR and the UK general election, these two new leaders joined Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam negotiating table.
Who are Harry S. Truman and Clement Attlee?
This VCE command term requires you to weigh the merits, successes, or failures of a strategy—like containment—to form a justified judgment.
What is evaluate?