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Cold war early tensions - Coggle Diagram
Cold war early tensions
Grand Alliance
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Marriage of convenience between Britain, USA and Soviet Union.
Tehran conference
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USA and Britain agreed to invade Europe from the West through Nazi-occupied France. The Soviet Union agreed to invade Germany from the East. Opened up 'second front' against Nazis.
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An international organisation would try to peacefully solve problems between countries. This meeting lay the foundations for the United Nations.
For Stalin, the Tehran Conference was a success. He would gain Polish territory after the war.
Yalta conference
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At Yalta, the superpowers agreed on the Declaration of Liberated Europe. This was designed to aid the people who the Grand Alliance had liberated from Nazi control.
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After the discussions at the Tehran Conference, the United Nations was finally set up at the Yalta Conference
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At the Yalta Conference, there was still tension over Poland as the leaders had disputed the results of free elections there.
Potsdam
Germany was defeated in May 1945. Then in August, Japan was defeated. Between July and August 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945 and was replaced by Harry S. Truman. Clement Attlee replaced Churchill.
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'Council of Foreign Ministers' was created. Its aim was to accelerate the recovery of Europe and to settle peace treaties with the Nazi allies.
Truman wanted free, democratic elections to happen in the Eastern European countries ‘liberated’ by the Soviet Union but Stalin was not keen on this idea.
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Ideological differences
Truman was less sympathetic towards the communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union than Roosevelt was.
Stalin was distrustful of Truman, who demanded lots of things at Potsdam. He was angry that, before the conference, Truman had successfully tested the atomic bomb without consulting him.
Churchill believed that a defeated Germany should be rebuilt. But Stalin wanted to weaken Germany as much as possible through reparations.
The Soviet Union supported communism, whilst the USA and Britain were capitalist countries.
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