Write an account of the Grand Alliance of World War II. (10)
Paragraph 1 – Formation
Paragraph 2 – Key Conferences
Paragraph 3 – Breakdown
- 1941 – Germany → USSR (June), Japan → Pearl Harbor (Dec)
- Members: Britain, USA, USSR
- Capitalist democracies vs communism
- Goal: defeat Axis
- Combined resources, global strategy
Paragraph 2 – Key Conferences
- Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt → Truman, Stalin
- Tehran 1943 → Second front, Stalin vs Japan after Germany
- Yalta 1945 → Germany 4 zones, UN created, free elections in Europe
- Agreed war + post-war plans
Paragraph 3 – Breakdown
- Potsdam 1945 → Reparations dispute, Eastern Europe tensions
- USA → Atomic bomb without telling Stalin
- Soviet control of Eastern Europe → mistrust
- Temporary alliance of necessity
- Collapse → Cold War begins
