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COLD WAR ORIGINS - EAST-WEST TENSIONS POST WW2 - Coggle Diagram
COLD WAR ORIGINS - EAST-WEST TENSIONS POST WW2
YALTA
TENSIONS
USSR thought allies trying to weaken USSR - eastern front
Katyn forest massacre 1940
Communism vs capitalism future for Germany/Europe
USSR supposed delayed support to Warsaw uprising
Stalin wanted control in Poland as Russia had been invaded through Poland 3x in the 20th Century
DECISIONS
'free' Polish elections
4 zones in Germany
USSR join UN and war vs Japan
POTSDAM
TENSIONS
USSR expansion into Europe
Truman anti-Communism
Stalin knows about nuke - Hiroshima was 4 days later on 6 August
DECISIONS
Germany - demilitarisation, decentralisation of govt, denazification
Germany - 25% reparations to USSR
Londojn poles allowed into Polish govt
CONCLUSIONS
Despite Churchill and Stalin’s respective paranoia of Soviet expansion into Europe and Allied conspiracy to weaken the USSR, the Yalta conference appeared to reaffirm the strength of the Grand Alliance through compromises in Germany and Poland.
By Potsdam, the ideological differences emerged, showing US and USSR to be firmly opposed in their objectives for post-war Europe. The agreements on Germany did not alleviate tensions and failed to secure Europe’s future, only postponing confrontation.