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Ft WuR
D Early ideological tension


-) Nazi-Soviet Pact
non-Agression = USA suspicious

- USSR Grand
joins Alliance against Germany
-) USA keeps creation of Atomic Bomb a secret from USSR

D USSR had suffered
-



WW2
great loss
during
② - Yalta Feb 4-11 1945
Roosevelt ,



settlements USA Britian France USSR
ending +
post :
-


war wa r , ,
,




① Free & fair elections
contained

② Zones of occupation in Germany
(only until Nazi-liberation) -

D 4 Zones + Berlin split D
=
communism

↳ Stalin satellite buffer-zones for
wanted Soviet states as
security .




& Germany
=
$20 billion in reparations (USA weary - domino effect : communism /

④ United Nations
change poland borders =
buffer zone (Podstam

⑤ Stalin would assist in
defeating Japan .




Podstam July 1945

① Truman replaced Roosevelt
-) more anti-communist most of eastern europe-comm

② Germany had surrendered > no more common
enemy

③ Zones+ each
country take reparations from own zones



dissagreement
O how should be formed
governments
& How much
Germany should
pay
=
reparations
(GAug)
After Podstam * USA had dropped A-bomb on Japan -D Stalin =
insecure + betrayed
* much of Eastern Europe had fallen to Communism . -P Soviet-puppet governments
↳Communist you in Poland


Telegrams

① 5 March
1946 The
Long Telegram
US Ambassador in USSR

4) reports of
concerning secret speech from Stalin

-


destruction of capitalism + increase in military power

-

us should seek to contain communism

② Novikov Telegram (1946) Sep
- uSSR ambassador in US

-
us desired to dominate world

-
Truman doesn't care for cooperation

③ 1946 Iron Curtain Speech 1) response to Stalin's Satellite States (Rigged elections (

- Churchill : Iron curtain on Europe

- Communist West
East Us
Capitalist

194) =
almost all Eastern Europe communist
governments
=




POLICY OF CONTAINMENT

0 1947 =
The Truman Doctrine 12 March

- USA's + Domino
responsibility to contain Communism
Theory
1) some
money & advisors = 1)
placing Ballistic Missiles in Turkey
-


+ weapons

-) Greece
turning point
=



Cmonarchists)
↳ Monarchy (supported by British troops) B Communists


4) Greek Civil War , Britian Can't afford to support ~ sustain

* weak economically poor states a communism .

② Marshall Aid 1948
=> economic Recovery Plan June 1947

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