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Superpower relations and Cold War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Capitalist
        
        Britain
        
        USA
        
        Believe that everyone should be free to own property and businesses and make money
      - Communist
        
        Soviet Union
        
        Believed that all property, including homes and businesses should belong to the state, to ensure that every member of society has a fair share
      - Differences between leaders
        
        The Big Three
        
        Joseph Stalin
        
        Franklin Roosevelt
        
        Winston Churchill
        
        Beliefs dominated the world from 41 - 45
        
        Churchill and Roosevelt had suspicions about Stalin and Stalin had suspicions about what Churchill and Roosevelt were trying to achieve
      - Difference between nations
        
        Stalin was a strong opponent of Hitler, therefore it seemed a good idea for the USA and UK to work with the Soviet Union to defeat Hitler. However once the war ended, it was clear the relations between the 3 would be strained.
      - A new world order
        
        After ww2, France and UK less important. USA and Soviet Union had emerged - with military and economic strength
      - The Grand Alliance
        
        Formed between UK, USA and Soviet Union to mastermind the defeat of Germany and Japan in WW2
    - - Tehran, NOV 1943
        
        Agreements made
        
        USA and UK open 'a second front' by launching an attack on Germany in Western Europe. Ease pressure in East were soviets were suffering. The Germans would have to withdrawer troops from eastern front and send to western front.
        
        Stalin declare war against Japan and supply soviets troops to help USA with the war against Japan - but only once war in Europe was over!
        
        Discussed what to do with Germany, no formal agreement made.
        
        General agreement that an international body should be set up to settle disputes through discussion and negotiation
      - Yalta, FEB 1945
        
        Agreements made
        
        Germany would be split into 4 zones (USA, Britain, France and Soviet Union) Germany pay $20 billion in reparations - half go to soviet union, Nazi party banned and war criminals prosecuted
        
        A United Nations set up. All nations could join but USA and France did not agree with Stalin's suggestion that all 16 soviet republics should be given individual membership. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus admitted.
        
        Stalin agreed to join war against Japan, 3 months after defeat of Germany
        
        Stalin agreed future governments of countries in Eastern Europe would be decided in free elections
        
        Not sure what to do with Poland
      - Potsdam, JULY-AUGUST 1945
        
        New people
        
        Harry Truman
        
        Clement Attlee
        
        Other world events
        
        Germany surrendered in May 1945
        
        USA scientists developed atomic bomb and successfully tested day after conference began
        
        Agreements made
        
        Germany divided into 4 zones (Soviet Union, USA, Britain and France) but German economy run as a whole
        
        Berlin divided into 4 zones, controlled by different countries, even though it was based in soviet controlled Germany