Unit Five > Chapter 33
1. Where did the Big Three meet in February of 1945?
2. At that meeting, what did Stalin want?
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3. What did they actually decide at that meeting?
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4. List the 5 permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
5. Why were these powers each given a veto?
6. What other 3 organizations were set up in the immediate postwar period?
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7. What point in Germany did the Western Allies reach before they stopped?
8. What 3 leaders died in April 1945?
9. When was the final German surrender signed?
10. How many in total were killed in WWII?
11. Of those, how many were Soviets?
12. Name the three Allied leaders who met in Potsdam in July 1945.
13. How did that list change in the course of the meeting?
14. What was Stalin's intention at this meeting?
15. What was decided at Potsdam?
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16. How many Germans were forced to move from Central and Eastern Europe?
17. What policy did the Western Allies adopt to deal with the problem of postwar Germany?
18. What determined the position of the Iron Curtain?
19. List the countries, with dates, which fell to Communism in the postwar period.
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20. Which 3 states east of the Iron Curtain remained non-Communist?
21. Why, on the map on p.196, is Yugoslavia shown outside the Iron Curtain?
22. What aspect of politics was a cause of concern in Western Europe?
23. What was the effect of WWII on Western Europe?
24. On whom would Western Europe have to rely for help?
Links:
A site on the firebombing of Dresden, and whether it was justified.
A Spartacus site on the firebombing of Dresden. Short and factual.
John Clare's revision page on Russia 1917-1941. Has good stuff on Russia in the 20's. http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war4.htm
The Learning Curve site on the British plan to assassinate Hitler.