Unit 4: Who was to blame for the Cold War?

Alliance Breakdown

USSR in Eastern Europe

US reaction to Eastern Europe

Berlin Blockade

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Purpose was to decide how Europe would be organized after WWII

They decided to divide Germany into 4 zones, put Nazi's on Trial, set a Polish government, help Europeans, and establish a commission to discuss Germans reputation.

Led by Franklin D. Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (UK), and Joseph Stalin (USSR)

Also Stalin was supposed to join the war with the US against Japan, and join the United Nations. In return he would get land from Germany, Poland, and Japan and gain control of Manchuria and N. Korea. None of these were fulfilled.

meeting of the Big 3 after Germany's surrender. US tries to "get tough with USSR" because they have the atomic bomb now

Agreements Agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones. Poland gives up more land to USSR. And Germans in Poland have to go back to Germany.

Pres. Harry Truman (US). Prime Minister Clement Attlee (UK), Leader Joseph Stalin (USSR)

Disagreements Stalin arrested Polish leaders and plans to set up and plans to set up communist friendly government. Stalin demands $10 billion in reparations from Germany. Stalin wants to set up communist friendly government in Eastern Europe as a buffer zone from Germany

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Once USSR army defeated Nazi occupied countries, they stayed there.

Bulgaria

Truman Doctrine - speech where he expressed his thoughts on Eastern Europe

Containment - US plan to stop the spread of communism

Marshall Plan - American Aid to Western Europe to prevent countries affected by WWII

Airlift

USSR stops blockade

Blockade

Bizonia