Karteikarten: Post-War Europe Divisions — 16 Karten

Yalta Conference — purpose?

Discussed post-war Europe and Germany division.

Potsdam Conference — main decision?

Divided Germany and Berlin into four zones.

Post-War divisions — what?

Europe split into East and West, physically and ideologically.

Allies to enemies — reason?

Ideological differences led to Cold War tensions.

Eastern Europe take-over — method?

Rigged elections, terror, abolition of monarchies.

Soviet justifications — key?

Security buffer, responsibility for Nazi defeat, stopping US influence.

Eastern European politics — characteristic?

One-party rule, repression, abolition of monarchies.

Iron Curtain — concept?

Symbolic division line between East and West Europe.

Germany division — agreed at?

Yalta and Potsdam conferences.

Berlin — divided into?

Four sectors controlled by US, USSR, UK, France.

USSR influence justification?

Security, Nazi defeat, counter US influence.

US ideology — key features?

Liberalism, free markets, multiple parties, free press.

USSR ideology — key features?

Communism, state ownership, one-party, censorship.

Eastern Europe take-over — tools?

Rigged elections, terror, banning opposition.

Iron Curtain — first described?

Churchill’s 1946 speech as symbolic division.

Cold War division?

Between Soviet-controlled East and Western democracies.