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Two Superpowers Face Off The Start of the Cold War 1945-1990

Russian Army marched west They meet in Germany as friends The Victorious Allies! (1945) U.S. Army marched east Russian Army marched west They meet in Germany as friends They had defeated a common enemy

YALTA Conference [Feb 1945] Churchill Roosevelt Stalin

Yalta Conference [Feb 1945] “Big Three” agree to divide Germany into zones of occupation Stalin: promised “free” elections for eastern countries Agreed to join war against Japan

U.S.A Soviet Union Deaths: 400,000 25,000,000 Damage: little/no Cities destroyed GOALS: Political- Democracy Communism Germany- Unite Germany Keep it divided Europe- Rebuild it Control Eastern Europe

Potsdam July 1945 FDR died in April 1945 Truman, Churchill, Stalin Truman pushed for FREE elections in Eastern Europe

Soviets Want a Buffer Zone

A Wall of Satellite Nations Stalin ignores agreement at Yalta No free elections are held Communist Governments are forced in place in 7 countries. Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia

East and West are Divided Stalin claims: [Jan 1946] “Communism and Capitalism could not exist in same world. War was inevitable” Churchill claims [March 1946] “An IRON CURTAIN has descended across the continent…..all are subject….to an increasing measure of Soviet control.”

The IRON CURTAIN

Cartoon Analysis