| Yalta agreements with Stalin, what didn't he do? | he didn't stick to the agreements, he didn't make the red army leave the countries after the elctions, he installed communist governments |
| How is COMECON evidence that Stalin is to blame? | it proved that he wanted to undermine the capitalist countries through national communist parties |
| How has Stalin's personality got to do with the blame? | He was obsessed with his country's security and he was very paranoid. He didn't listen to his advisors much and he saw to the devision between europe and the iron curtain |
| How can Stalin's role be defended by the wests attituide? | People aruge that the west did not appreciate the soviet union's secutiy concerns and Stalin thought that appesment was a plan to allow Germany to expand to the east not west. |
| How can Stalin's role be defended by war time secrecy? | he was write about the wartime secrecy, the USA had not shared thier atomic bomb plan with then and the USA had also refused to relieve the pressure on the Red army fighting with the German's in the east |
| How can Stalin's role be defened by rossevelt's death? | Harry Truman made the discussions much harder, he ended the land-lease |
| Evidence that the USA could be blamed for the start of the cold war? | Truman didn't give a warning to Stalin that there was going to be the end of the land-lease, he just turned the ships around |
| Evidence that the USA could be blamed for the start of the cold war? | It was to ensure that the capitalist countires could thrive, so that the eurpoeans could buy american goods |
| Evidence that the USA could be blamed for the start of the cold war? | The creation of Boznia and Trizonia went agaisnt the Potsdam agreement and itwas an attempt to introduce capitalism across the whole of Germany. may 29th 1947 |
| Arugment that the USA is to blame ? | The econnomy in the USA had recovered and doubled in size, Truman was worried that once peace arrived there would be an economic slump, so he needed the USA to have a European market for the goods that it was producing |
| Arugment 2 that the USA is to blame? | Truman did not trust the soviet's words of pormis, he thought that using the atomic bomb would allow the soviet union to listen to him. This was also with the truman doctorine and the marshall plan |
| How could the role of the USA be defended? | Stalin was dismissive about the 'london poles' which broke the wartime agreements
Truman thought that the truman doctrine was a defensive not offence |
| Differnce between Stalin and Truman actions | NATO, truman allowed anyone in western europe to join freely and welcomed them
Warsaw pact, Stalinn forced all the countries behind the iron curtian to join the warsaw pact in 1955 |
