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Title: The Cold War


1
The Cold War
2
Allies Become Enemies
  • Competing political philosophies
  • Democracy vs. Communism
  • US upset with Nonaggression Pact
  • USSR blamed Allies for not invading sooner

3
Yalta Conference
  • Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
  • Agree to divide Germany into zones
  • Germany have to pay USSR reparations
  • Eastern European countries would have free
    elections

4
United Nations
  • New peacekeeping organization
  • USA and USSR join (48 others)
  • New York City
  • Security Council
  • Power to investigate and settle
  • 5 permanent members
  • Br., China, Fr., US, USSR
  • Veto power

5
  • Differing Goals

6
Iron Curtain
  • USSR wants buffer from invasion
  • Installs communist govt
  • Albania
  • Bulgaria
  • Hungary
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Romania
  • Poland
  • Yugoslavia
  • Truman protests ? Stalin ignores

7
Europe divided
  • Eastern and Western Europe split
  • Germany divided into East Germany and West
    Germany
  • Berlin (in E.G. is split)
  • Iron Curtain
  • Churchill
  • Democratic West
  • Communist East

8
Truman Foreign Policy
  • Containment
  • Blocking Soviet influence
  • Stopping expansion of Communism
  • Forming alliances
  • Aiding weaker countries resist

9
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Assistance program to rebuild Western Europe
  • Berlin Airlift
  • USSR held W. Berlin hostage
  • Hoped Allies would surrender
  • 11 months Allies flew in supplies
  • May, 1949 Soviets admit defeat
  • Lift blockade

10
World Wide Effects
  • NATO
  • Western Alliances
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Eastern Alliance
  • Berlin Wall (1961)
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