Who was president of the USA IN 1943?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was president of the USSR in 1943?
Joseph Stalin
What system governed the USA?
Capitalist democracy
Who met in the Tehran Conference in 1943?
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Grand Alliance
USA, USSR, Great Britain
What is NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Defensive military alliance of Eastern European states (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland)
What system governed USSR?
Communism
Who met in the in the Potsdam Conference?
Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin and Clement Attlee
Appeasement
a diplomatic strategy involving concessions to an aggressive foreign power to avoid conflict or war
What part of Germany did the USA, France and Britain control?
West Germany and west Berlin
What part of Germany did the USSR control?
East Germany and east Berlin
What is capitalism?
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What were the 5 Ds?
demilitarisation, de-Nazification, democratisation, de-industrialisation, decentralisation
Lend-Lease
a US program that provided Allied nations (USSR) with billions of dollars in food, oil, and military supplies between 1941 and 1945, without requiring immediate payment.
What decision did Truman make that upset the Soviets?
He abruptly ended Lend-Lease
What promise did Stalin break?
Free elections in Poland
What is 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.
Mention 3 agreement that change from the Yalta to Potsdam conference.
Reparations amount reduced (Germany), Stalin accepted non communists into Polish government. Elections rejected by Stalin (Poland). Promise of free elections broken by Stalin. Stalin gained territory from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia became part of USSR, Germans were sent back to Germany.
Veto
The right to stop a bill from becoming law
What are the main differences between Capitalism and Communism?
Capitalism-Business and property privately owned. Democracy. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty. Being free of government control more important than equality for all.
Communism-All industry owned and ran by state. Dictatorship. Standard of living lower than USA but poverty was rare and unemployment too. Rights of individuals were less important than the good of society as whole.