Origins of the Cold War

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Origins of the Cold War

• Chapter 26 Section 1

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Objectives

• Students will be able to
• Describe the post war goals of the U.S. and the
  Soviets
• Analyze the effects of the Iron Curtain and the
  Truman Doctrine

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Questions of the Day

• What do you think a Cold War is?
• Why was this war considered a cold war and not
  hot? What made it a war?

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1945

• What was the relationship between the U.S. and
  the Soviet Union like at the end of WWII?
• What were their areas of agreement?
• What were their areas of disagreement?

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Yalta Conference

• Division of Germany
• American, British, French, Soviet
• Reparations to Soviets denied - 20 billion
  Why?
• Japan
• Support/islands
• Poland gateway, promises, communism

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United Nations

• League of Nations failed
• 50 Nations gathered
• Peace, justice, cooperationstop wars
• 11 Council seats that can veto
• U.S, Britain, France, China, Soviets - permanent

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Harry S. Truman

• Roosevelt dies with all of his ideas
• Truman was left in the dark

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Potsdam Conference

• Similar to Yalta, but new leaders
• Attlee and Truman
• Similar disagreements
• Japan, , Germany
• Truman shared his new weapon
• Soviets were already aware

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Goals

• Soviet
• Lost 20 million people and destruction
• Wanted Satellite Nations
• Communist countries

• American
• Wanted democracy and economic opportunity for
  conquered nations
• Helps with trade politics

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Soviets take hold

• Poland no elections for 2 years
• Albania Bulgaria silenced all ant-communists
• Czechoslovakia democratic, but 2 years later
  communist
• Hungary Romania same as above
• Common thread took over police and silenced
  anti-communist leaders
• Video

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Iron Curtain

• Cominform - spread the ideas all over the world
  without military action
• Stalin v. Churchill (speeches)
• Political, economic, and military tensions.

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Analyze this cartoon
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Containment

• Keep communism from spreading!
• bears within it the seeds of its own decay
• What does this mean?

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Truman Doctrine

• Nearly every nation must choose between
  alternative ways of life. The choice is too
  often not a free one. One way of life is based
  upon the will of the majorityThe second way of
  life is based upon the will of the minority
  forcibly imposed upon the majorityI believe that
  it must be the policy of the United States to
  support free peoples who are resisting attempted
  subjugation conquest by armed minorities or by
  outside pressures. I believe that we must assist
  free peoples to work out their own destinies in
  their own way
• Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947

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Truman Doctrine

• 400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey

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Assignment

• Respond in writing
• Do you believe that Germany and other countries
  in Europe had a fighting chance with democracy?
  Explain.