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.
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