Year 10 Cold War

4. A source of WW2 tension between the USA and the USSR. The USSR wanted this open to help relieve pressure on their troops. It was delayed by the USA and UK
6. Conference between the Grand Alliance in 1943
10. This report concluded that the USSR was targeting Greece and Turkey - reported in September 1945
11. This was detonated in August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
13. USA policy from 1947, originally thought of by George Kennan, used by President Truman
15. Where the USA loaned military equipment for the duration of the war. The USSR received $11bn worth.
16. Pact made in 1949 between western powers. 'An attack on one is an attack on all'

1. This country was fighting a Civil War, Britain was intervening but by 1947 announced they were no longer able to.
2. The merging of zones between Britain and the USA in January 1947
3. June 1948 - caused the USSR to blockade West Berlin
5. The Communist Information Bureau, coordinating the actions of Communist parties under Stalin
7. Area between Germany and the Soviet Union that Stalin wanted under his control
8. This conference was the last conference where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt were together
9. An alternative strategy that would involve active USA intervention in Communist states
12. The General in charge of an aid programme starting in 1948. (Announced in 1947)
14. The USSR wanted lots of these from Germany. Eventually it was agreed that USSR could receive 25% of machinery from France, UK and USA