Countdown to the Cold War

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Countdown to the Cold War

• Augugliaro/ Kempton/ Patten

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Yalta Conference

• February of 1945, just before WWII was over, the
  leaders of the allied powers met in the Soviet
  Union at Yalta.
• The Big 3 Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.

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Yalta Conference

• They begin to plan for the end of the war,
  creating a design to divide Germany into 4 zones
  temporarily after the war.
• America, Britain, France and Soviet Union would
  each occupy a zone.
• Poland would be granted land from Germany but
  would lose land to the U.S.S.R.
• Agreed that Stalin would oversee the creation of
  new governments in Eastern Europe at the end of
  the war.

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Roosevelt to Truman

• In April of 1945 President Roosevelt dies after 4
  terms in office.
• He is replaced by Harry S. Truman.
• Truman made it clear that he would be "tough" on
  the Soviet Union and that he strongly opposed
  communism.

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Potsdam

• When In the final days of WWII through late July
  to August 2, 1945.
• Who The "new" Big 3 Truman, Attlee (UK), and
  Stalin.
• Where Potsdam, Germany
• Why The goal of the conference was to decide
  how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi
  Germany and decide the future of war torn Europe

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Agree to Disagree

• Germany was divided into 4 zones as was Berlin.
• The United Nations is set up with 50 Nations.
• Tension between Stalin and Truman grows as Truman
  hides the information about the atomic bomb.

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Germany after Potsdam in 1945
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Berlin after Potsdam 1945
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Stalin Steps Up

• With WWII, Yalta, and Potsdam setting up the U.S.
  and U.S.S.R as the two world superpowers, Stalin
  begins creating a buffer zone in Europe. He wants
  to spread communism throughout the area.
• He creates, what Churchill calls the "Iron
  Curtain".

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the Continent. Winston Churchill
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Iron Curtain

• 1 year after the Potsdam Agreement, Stalin
  supported the creation of pro-communist
  governments in Eastern Europe.
• He creates a buffer zone of communist friendly
  nations to avoid future invasion from the West.
• Soon Europe was divided by an imaginary line
  called the Iron Curtain

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IRON CURTAIN
Soviet Satellites
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East v. West

• Eastern Europe was now made up of Soviet
  dominated communist Satellite Nations.
• Western Europe, including three zones of Germany,
  was made up of democratic nations.
• Satellite Nation a smaller country that is
  economically and politically dependent on a more
  powerful nation.