Post WWII Europe

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Post WWII Europe
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Potsdam Conference-Summer 1945

• Temporarily divide Germany into 4 zones
• Divide Berlin
• Rid Germany of any remnants of Nazi party
• Reparations
• Soviets would receive largest share
• Soviets wanted a buffer zone of friendly
  governments in Eastern Europe

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Iron Curtain

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
  Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
  the continent. Behind that line lie all the
  capitals of the ancient states of Central and
  Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,
  Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all
  these famous cities and the populations around
  them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere,
  and all are subject in one form or another, not
  only to Soviet influence but to a very high and,
  in some cases, increasing measure of control from
  Moscow. Athens alone - Greece with its immortal
  glories - is free to decide its future at an
  election under British, American and French
  observation.
• - Winston Churchill (3/1946)

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Germany post WWII
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Origins of Cold War

• Define??
• Ideological Conflict
• War is out of the question in 1945
• Proxy wars

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Put me Into Chronological Order

• BERLIN BLOCKADE/AIRLIFT
• MARSHALL PLAN
• POTSDAM
• Formation of Federal Republic of Germany
• WARSAW PACT
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE
• NATO
• Formation of German Democratic Republic

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RESPONSES

• Potsdam (7/45)
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE (3/1947)
• MARSHALL PLAN (1947)
• BERLIN BLOCKADE/AIRLIFT (June 1948-May 1949)
• Formation of Federal Republic of Germany (WG)
  (1949)
• Formation of German Democratic Republic (EG)
  (1949)
• NATO (1949)
• WARSAW PACT (1955)
• U.N..Implications?

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FRG vs. GDR

• After Berlin Blockade is over
• In August 1949 the three Western zones joined
  together to form the FRG (Federal Republic of
  Germany).
• In response, the Soviet zone became the German
  Democratic Republic (GDR).

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Hot Spots

• With the creation of the Truman Doctrine and the
  Policy of Containmentthe stage was set for
  points of Conflict

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Korean WAR-Hot Spot

• Clash between Communist North Korean and
  Democratic South Korea
• USSR supports North, US supports South
• 1950-1953
• Stalemate-North Korea remained communist
• South Korea-ally of the west

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CAUSES Disagreements between the Allies during
World War II Differing U.S. and Soviet
political and economic systems Differing goals
for postwar Germany and Eastern Europe Soviet
expansion of communism in Eastern Europe
Resistance to Soviet aggression by United
States EFFECTS Political and
military struggles around the world Increased
military spending, leading to an arms race The
ever-present danger of nuclear war