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Cold war origins - Coggle Diagram

- - - - wanted to push allies out of soviet quarter
    - - Rise in tensions
- - - - Fate of Germany post WW2
        
        Germany to pay $20 billion worth of reparations in kind
        
        Unconditional surrender from Germany
        
        Move Germany's eastern border westwards
        
        Germany to temporarily be divided into four occupation zones
        
        Denazification
      - Establishment of the UN
      - USSR to enter the war against Japan
        
        Stalin agreed to intervene in the war against Japan after Germany was defeated
        
        In return, USSR given territory lost to Japan during 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Outer Mongolia and Manchuria to become Soviet "Spheres of Influence"
      - Future of Poland
      - Denazification
      - War crime trials
    - - Allies disagreed over the future of Poland
      - Disagreed over the future of Germany
        
        Stalin wanted to destroy Germany
        
        The USSR wanted access to the Ruhr
      - Agreed to denazify Germany
      - Germany would be governed by an Allied Controlled Council in Berlin
    - - Rebuild Europe
      - Self determination
      - Undecided: Long-term future of Germany & What to do with Poland
- - - - Policy to contain communism, help countries to self-determine
    - - Aid provided to Western Europe post WW2, provided more than $15 billion, for rebuilding infrastructure and economy
        
        Implementation of the Marshall Plan has been cited as the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and its European allies and the Soviet Union, which had effectively taken control of much of central and eastern Europe and established its satellite republics as communist nations.