The revision notes consists of an in-depth summary of the origins of the Cold War for ocr international a level history paper 3 , with dates names all events and diff views and interpretations required by the exam board these notes are all u need for an A*
Cold War
Revisionist :in 1960s and 70s they stressed americas expansionism as a
cause for the cold war arguing that the usa was still prosperous after
Ww2
Traditionalist :places blame for the cold war on the expansionist
policy of the soviet union under Stalin shortly after the war
Post revisionist : places blame on neither and explains the events as
being inevitable due to the nature of these countries
Hostility between the USSR and the WEST
-deep ideological differences
- west feared Russian influence
- Ussr resented its exclusion from the diplomacy of the 30s
- The nazi soviet pact and expansion of ussr in Eastern Europe
Russian communist revolution 1917
Conflicts start as usa enters ww1 as Russias ally and Lenin makes
peace with Germany which angers the usa after the civil war is won by
the reds although the whites were supported by the west to contain
communism
Nazi soviet pact
Secret agreement between nazis and Russia that they wouldn’t attack
each other signed in august 1939 along with that they would divide
Poland between them .
The grand alliance (Churchill , Roosevelt, Stalin )
Atlantic charter
During ww2 the us and great Britain issued a joint declaration in
august 1941 that set out a vision for post war world in jan 1942
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, 26 nations pledged their support one of the first key steps to the
united nations .
Different aims of the grand alliance
Us - the four freedoms
Gb - fear of communism and did not trust Stalin tried to secure us
commitment to post war Europe
Ussr - safeguarding soviet security
Tehran conference December 1943
Main discussion was the “second front”(Britain would reenter Europe
splitting the German forces leading to German defeat to take pressure
off ussr as they would need to regroup to attack Britain )
-attack France and agreed to divide Germany into zones
Warsaw uprising august 1944
The nkvd crushed the home front army in Poland the HFA took over
Warsaw in 3 days and Germany was pulling back however Stalin refused
to allow the western allies to supply aid and disarmed polish untied on
their way to help .allthough the west tried to send help through Italy
the nazis crushed the uprising
October 1944 nazis destroyed Warsaw while the red army watched
Percentage agreement
Informal agreement proposed by Churchill dividing up south east
Europe into distinct spheres of influence . Romania 90% and
Bulgaria75% to ussr and Britain would get 90% of Greece to uk .
Yalta conference -February 1945
They agreed on dealing with Germany by dividing it the major discussion
point was mostly eastern europe
Churchill wanted free elections and democratic govts in eastern
europe
Stalin wanted soviet governments especially In Poland
Offered Stalin territories Russia lost in the rusojappenese war back in
return of entering the war between us and Japan
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