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| show | When the soviet union fought back against the Nazi's and took their satellite state, annexing it into their own territory.
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| show | He wanted to keep them as a buffer zone to prevent Russia from ever being invaded again (to protect Russia from further German aggression) because they suffered immensely and lost 20-30 million people
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| show | The iron curtain was the border between Western democracy and Eastern democracy that ran through Germany and satellite states. Divided countries controlled by democracy and the countreis controlled by Soviet Union
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| Explain how Soviet Union set up communist countries while deceiving the Western Allies that they were running free elections | show 🗑
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| What were the conferences that occured befoer and after world war 2 ? | show 🗑
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| show | To decide on what to do with Germany once she was defeated, to deal with war reparations and to deal with satelite states
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| show | Stalin requested to open up a second front because his country was suffering, however the other allied powers refused to help his devasted country. Stalin believed the allies were intentionally delaying opening up a second front to allow G weaken Russia
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| show | Feb 1945. Germany was not yet defeated but clear she will surrender soon. To decide on Germany's future after she has been defeated. To promote co-operation between the Allied powers and to create a peaceful Europe.
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| show | Nazi crims will be brought to court, set up liberated countries (namely Poland) government, set up commissions for war reparations, SU permitted to keep territories if fair and free elections, G demilitarised and made to pay war reparations, divide G
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| Who were the major leaders at Yalta and why was the conference very much so in Stalin's favour | show 🗑
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| What was the reason for the Potsdam conference | show 🗑
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| show | July 1945
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| show | G divided into four occupation Zones, which each of the Allied powers would control. Russia got the largest zone because the suffered the most in the war. Zones allowed them to take reparations.
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| show | Allowed their territorial concessions - allowed to take reparations in the form of territory and 10% of Western industrial equipment, all allies worked together to lead to a free Eastern Europe
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| Why wasn't the Potsdam conference very successful? | show 🗑
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| What did the SU do to East Germany (concerning reparations) | show 🗑
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| What was the Trueman doctrine | show 🗑
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| How was the Trueman doctrine enacted | show 🗑
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| What did the Marshall Plan involve | show 🗑
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| show | Contain communism by making it look terrible, spread capatilism, rebuild Europe, sell American goods, making countries posperous again
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| show | Communism appeals to the poorer aspect of society so by building infastructure and flooding countries with money, it makes capatilism look extremely appealing.
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| show | Marshall Aid
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| What happens on June 23rd 1948 | show 🗑
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| show | Western Allies unify their sectors to form one zone and formed a provisional gov. that gave more power to the Germans. This was a breach of the Potsdam protocol.
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| show | The East announced their new currency. It was still worthles compared s to the Western Currency
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| What happened on the 24th June 1948 | show 🗑
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| What was the Berlin Blockade | show 🗑
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| show | He wanted to force the USA into submission. He was concerned that due to the recent unifcation and introduction of Deutschmark that the USA and western allies were attempting to re-unify Germany and a plot to lure East Berliners and East Germans into West
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| show | Would strengthen Germany and the Western Allies and severely weaken SU
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| show | June 1948 - 1949
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| How did the America and other Western Allies respond to Berlin Blockade? | show 🗑
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| Why couldn't Stalin stop the airlift | show 🗑
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| show | West Berliners were shocked how the East were treated by SU, Massively increased tentions between EB and WB, humiliated Stalin and Soviet Union, showed lengths Stalin would go to but not resort to war, propoganda victoriy for allies, showed Allies no leav
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| show | State formally known as West Germany. Formed a seperate, independent nation in May 23rd 1949 (not too soon after Blockade)
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| show | The allies believed that Stalin would never co-operate
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| How did the Soviet Union react? | show 🗑
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| show | symbols of divided world. This marked the end of any discussion of re-uniting Germany
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| show | in the 1950's
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| show | A mass illegal emmigration of young academics and proffesionals from East Berlin to West
from East Berlin to the West.
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| show | They were under a repressive and restrictive system. Their skills/talents not appreciated/valued. East Berlin was impoverished while West Berlin was prosperous.
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| show | They were losing thousdands of intelligent and valuable people. Cause labour shortages and further degradation
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| What Ultimamtum did Kruschev give to the western powers in 1958 | show 🗑
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| What was the western allies response to the ultimatum in 1948 | show 🗑
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| When was the wall built | show 🗑
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| For what reasons did the allies decide to divide Germany and Berlin? | show 🗑
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| How were the Soviets able to exploit this division? | show 🗑
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| After Stalin died who took over the position of president | show 🗑
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| show | Soviet leader after Stalin. Responsible for partial de-stalinisation (providing more freedom, censorship was reduced, ushered in peaceful eara). Emphasised peacefully co-existing with Western Powers while maintaing Soviet communism. He constructed the wal
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| show | he established barbed wire fences and patrolled borders in order to prevent the illegal emigration of their citizens into West Berlin
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| show | Lost 2.5 million people by 1961, EG desperately needed to stop this mass exodus. The obvious leak was the easy access East Germans had to West Berlin.
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| Who took over from Nikita Kruschev | show 🗑
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| What does Detente mean | show 🗑
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| show | Cuban Missile Crisis - brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction, Soviet and Us economies could no longer sustain arms race, Soviet and Us had reached nuclear parity, needed to normalise tensions to prevent nuclear war
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| What was the facet of Detente put forward by Willy Brandt | show 🗑
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| What did Ostpolitik involve | show 🗑
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| Who was Willy BRandt | show 🗑
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| When was Ostpolitik put into play and what incited it | show 🗑
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| Why did the Soviet Union need Detente | show 🗑
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| What did Ostpolitik involve? | show 🗑
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| show | 1970 - first W G to visit E G and have direct discussions. Directly Visits Moscow and meets with Leonid Brezhnev. Massive step. He visisted Poland (soviet controlled) to try to spread the message of co-operation.
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| What had stagnated relations between East and West Germany | show 🗑
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| show | It was a massive step forward as it re-opened up communication and began the process of Detente.
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| What was the Treaty of Moscow | show 🗑
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| show | 1971. Status quo of Berlin should not be altered unilaterally. These resulted in some dramatic changes in East/West relations such as traffic between the territories will be unimpeded and th e existing ties between them would be recognised. Borders were
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| show | 'Cracks began to appear in Berlin wall do
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| Basic treaty | show 🗑
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| show | oes up to shut up borders - no passage across this wall - diffuse tensions between East and West (war is better than a awar). This wall will stop a war from happening between us
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| When was Gorbachev in power | show 🗑
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| WHy did polish workers go on stirke | show 🗑
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| What did the shipyar dworkers form | show 🗑
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| Why were the soviets so frightened of Solidarity | show 🗑
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| Why didn't Soviet Union invade Poland | show 🗑
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| show | Perestoika, Glasnot. These reduced censorship, introduce aspects of communism, economic reforms, new foreign relations to with West to end hostility
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| What move did Hungary make in late 1989 that began the fall of the wall? | show 🗑
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| show | No-one stopped them. Gobachev didn't want to force communism on people and it wwas their country their borders.
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| What happens after no-one stops people emigrating to hungary | show 🗑
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| What happens once the Stazi are unable to stop the protests | show 🗑
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| show | 1991
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| show | After long telegram in 1947
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