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POST WW2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - give space to british, US, france and USSR
    - - united nations where everyone worked together
    - - Germany must pay for the cost of the war
    - - Stalin agreed to help defeat for Islands
    - - make nazi pay for crimes
    - - wanted to have nations previously owned by Germany to hold free elections
    - - change borders
        
        stalin wants to influence a communist goverment
- - - - 1
        
        division of germany
        
        demilitarisation
      - 2
        
        japanese government need to surrender
        
        japan will be occupied by Allies until disarmament of military forced and a peaceful and responsible government is established
      - 3
        
        humane and orderly transfer of all ethic germans to be moved to germany from all other parts of europe
        
        10 million people forceably moved
        
        500,000 expelled people died due to starvation, hypothermia and violence
    - - POLAND
        
        UK & US suspected Stalins political influence in POLAND
        
        US and UK wanted to protect provisional Polish government and reinstate free elections
        
        US & UK knew that Stalin already had plans in place for a communist government in POLAND
      - REPARATIONS
        
        US Didnt want a repeat of Treaty of Versallies repeat
        
        Stalin wanted to cripple germany
        
        USSR lost 27 people during WW2
        
        AGREEMENT SETTLEMENT
        
        reperations cannot effect germanys ability to exist independently without foreign assistance
        
        The USSR will receive reperations from their occupied zones of Germany,
        
        reperations for other Allied powers will be taken from thier west zones of germany
        
        USSR can move 10% industrial equippment from West zone if it doesnt interfer with german economy
        
        West and East zone leaders cannot interfere with German opperations in the others zones
      - ATOMIC BOMB
        
        Made all countries in attendance suspicious of each other
- - - - Greece and turkey needed aid after britian could no longer finacually help out
        
        trueman asked congress for $400 million to help out
        
        his speech expressed his wishes for free states
        
        speech promoted western ideologies
        
        speech created a good vs evil (US vs USSR) mentality in America
        
        these views spread throughout the world and stopped communist parties in FRANCE and ITALY from gaining majority
- - - - believed that the US could use this to intimidate other countries into agreeing with thier views
        
        was probably used to make USSR allow free elections
- - - - by gaining control of the independent countries between East Germany, and Russia, Stalin created a buffer zone making him pretty invincible to attack from other European natiosn
      - "the presence in the country of the Soviet army preluded any attempt at armed rebellion"
      - Completely disreguarded agreed upon Potsdam agreement which had stressed importance of free elections
    - - Albania (1945)
        
        C took power without interference
      - Bulgaria (1945)
        
        C gained power then took out opposition (dead)
      - Poland (1947)
        
        non C leaders arrested and members exiled
      - Romania (1945)
        
        C gradually took power after elect
        
        forced to pay $300 million to USSR
      - Hungary (1947)
        
        pressured gov and took power of police to surpress them
        
        forced to pay $200 million to USSR
      - Czechoslovakia (1948)
        
        C elect then banned all other parties and killed leaders
      - Yugoslavia (-)
        
        no C interfereance needed, Pres TITO maintained strong respect with his ppl
        
        was no liberated by red army in WW2 so it was allowed to act independent from USSR
- - - - food
      - fuel
      - machinary
      - staple items
      - business help
        
        promoted free trade between countries began producing goods and supressed communism in many nations as they became more stable and reliant on the money from the free markets
    - - aimed to rebuild econmy in unstable countries
      - Countries recieved a combined total of $13 billion in aid
        
        US kept this underwraps from US citizens in fear of backlash from tax payers