1. Two Superpowers Face Off
The Start of the Cold War

2. 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

3. YALTA Conference [Feb 1945]
Churchill Roosevelt Stalin

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. Soviets Want a Buffer Zone

8. 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

9. 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.”

10. The IRON CURTAIN

11. Cartoon Analysis