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Origins of the cold war - Coggle Diagram
Origins of the cold war
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US, British and Soviet relation 1945
Yalta conference 1945
- Germany split into 4 zones of occupation, USSR was keen that Germany should not be allowed to re-emerge
- Pledged to hold free elections in Poland (Russia had been invaded through Poland 3 times in twentieth century so Stalin sought influence
- USSR would join the war against Japan and join the UN
Break down of relations at Potsdam 1945
- US wanted an entirely new government in Poland as they felt the elections were not fair
- US unhappy with the. spread of the Red Army across Eastern Europe and the influence this afforded Stalin over those governments
- Roosevelt died and his successor Truman was inclined to 'get tough' on communism
3 days after Potsdam Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Stalin felt insulted by Truman's failure to inform him about the bomb
developing tensions
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Containment
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- the creation of a new west german state
- NATO
- the reconstruction of Japan
Why was it adopted?
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Kennan's long Telegram
Us diplomat who had been based in Moscow since 1933, he sent a 8,000 word long telegram to the US government in 1946 in which he described that the USSR were seeking communist expansion which was brutal and oppressive
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