LECTURE 2 KEYTERMS  
WORLD WAR ROOTS OF THE COLD WAR   

realist school of international relations

realpolitik

The Great Powers

European state system

Realpolitik Bipolar model

Ideological Bipolar model

Hegemonic Model

Historiography of the Cold War

orthodox school

revisionist school

post-revisionist school

neo-realist post revisionism

Lewis Gaddis

The Big Three (Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin)

Grand Alliance

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

Tripartite Conferences (Big Three Conferences)

Tehran Conference (November 1943)

Yalta Conference (February 1945)

Potsdam Conference (July-August 1945)

Second Front

Operation Overlord

Chiang Kai-shek  (Jiǎng Jièshí)

Mao Tse Tung  (Máo Zédōng)

Charles de Gaulle`s  (Free French)

United Nations

General Assembly

Security Council

Permanent Members Security Council

Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits (1936)

Warm water ports

Polish Government-in-Exile (or the Polish Secret State or “London Poles”)

AK (Armia Krajowa)

Katyn Forest Massacre

Polish Committee of National Liberation—PCNL (“Lublin Poles”)

Curzon Line

Warsaw Uprising

Polish Prime Minister in Exile Stanislaw Mikolajczyk

Percentage Agreement (Percentage Deal)

the ‘naughty document’

spheres of influence

ELAS-EAM

Greek Civil War

European Advisory Commission – (EAC)

Allied Control Commission (ACC)

Reparations-in-kind