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reasons for the cold war - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the rights of individuals were seen as less important than good of society as a whole
        
        this was at odd with the USA and Britain
      - Stalin believed that it was the USSRs duty to spread communism into Europe
  - - - felt that other countries should be run as their own were
        
        USSR dislike the selfishness
      - Britain failed to consult Stalin when they negotiated with Hitler over his seizure of Czechoslovakia in 1938
      - appalled by the censorship and feared that Stalin had created inside the USSR
- - - - Germany was going to be 'de-militarised'
      - The USSR,USA and BRITAIN, were all committed to 'de-Nazifying' Germany
      - Democracy was going to be re-established in Germany
      - Berlin would be divided into four zones, USSR,USA,BRITAIN and FRANCE
      - each administering country could take reparations from their own zone, USSR- poorest zone, they were entitled to take a quarter of the industrial equipment from other zones
    - - Truman refused to accept Soviet control over the countries they had occupied ( e.g. Czechoslovakia)
      - Truman was against for the arrangements for Poland and the boarders that had been previously agreed
      - The Soviets wanted Germany to pay heavy reparations but the USA was concerned it would make it difficult for the Germany economy to recover
  - - - NONE
    - - Aim of the war was to bring complete surrender of Germany
      - International body should be set up to settle disputes
      - USA and Britain would open a 'Second Front' by launching an attack on Germany in Western Europe
      - Stalin would declare war against Japan and supply Soviet troops to help USA
  - - - USA demands that Russia enter the war against Japan once Germany had surrendered
      - Germany would be divided into four zones after the war : American, French, British and Soviet zone
      - Germany would pay $20 billion in reparations
        
        which the Soviet union would received $10 billion.
        
        The Nazi party was banned and war criminals were prosecuted
      - to see eastern Europe as a 'Soviet sphere of influence' to guard against ant future invasions from Europe
      - Britain, Russia and the USA were all committed to searching put and punishing Nazi perpetrators who were responsible for Genocide
    - - Stalin wanted the USSR'S border to move westwards into Poland, Churchill did not approve
      - Stalin was forced to guarantee that the USSR would not involve itself in the unfolding civil war in Greece. if he did not, the USSR could remain in Poland
      - disagreements over the membership of the United Nations
        
        Stalin wanted all 16 Soviet Republics to join but the USA and France objected