Origins of the Cold War

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Origins of the Cold War

• What is the Cold War? An overview
• Clash between ______ and _________.
• How has it effected us?
• What are its _______?

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Origins of the Cold War

• WWI ________pulled out due to civil war.
• Russian Civil War ____________ on the side of
  the Whites to defeat Communism. Suspicion and
  fear of the West is created in Russia.

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Origins of the Cold War

• _____________________ Suspicion created between
  Russian and the West.
• WWII Hitler violates the Pact. Russia joins
  allies as the ________________.

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Origin of the Cold War

• Three summits between U.S., Britain, and U.S.S.R.
  The Big Three_______________.
• Tehran November 1943.
• Yalta February 1945.
• Potsdam July1945.

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Origins of the Cold War

• Tehran November 1943.
• Allies meet to decide how to defeat Germany.
• They decide to invade through France.
• Russia is left to fight on the Eastern front.
  This allows for a ______________________.

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Origins of the Cold War

• Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet in Crimea
  at the Livadia Palace on the Black Sea for the
  Yalta Conference on February 4-11, 1945.

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Origins of the Cold War

• Results of the Yalta Conference
• U.S. troops to withdraw from Europe in _______.
• Stalin granted ______________ from Germany.
• Russia allowed influence in Eastern Europe as
  long as they allow _______________________.
• Russia gets 2 extra seats in the ______________.
• Russia agrees to enter the war on Japan.
• _____________ divided at the 38th parallel

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Origins of the Cold War

• Potsdam Conference July 17-August 2
• America successfully tests _________, July 23.
• Churchill defeated in July 28th Election to
  Clement Attlee.
• Stalin refuses to hold the ___________ in Eastern
  Europe that he promised at the Yalta conference,
  because free elections would be anti-communist.

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Origins of the Cold War

• The point of no return American arrogance over
  the A-bomb.
• America tries to keep the bomb a secret from
  Russia despite their alliance.

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Origins of the Cold War

• August 6, 20 kiloton uranium bomb dropped on
  Hiroshima. 80,000 dead.
• August 9, 22 kiloton plutonium bomb dropped on
  Nagasaki. 70,000 dead.
• Japan surrenders on August 15th, 1945.

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Origins of the Cold War

• Mutual distrust and fear created between U.S.S.R.
  and the U.S.
• U.S.S.R. develops the bomb in 1949.
• We are launched into the Nuclear Age and the Cold
  War.

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Origins of the Cold War