1. Beginning of the Cold War Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
The Cold War Begins
United States
Soviet Union
Why a “cold” war?
Roots of the Cold War
Category
Political System
Organizations
Economic System
Religion
Individual Rights
Soviet Communism
American Democracy
Beginning of the Cold War
Yalta (February 1945)
Potsdam (July 1945)
Soviet
Union
United States
Iron Curtain
Yalta and Potsdam Conferences

2. Origins of U.S. Containment Policy
Truman
Doctrine
“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted [conquest] by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.”
-The Truman Doctrine
Do you think the United States should have offered aid to all nations facing such threats? Explain
The Marshall Plan
Post-War Europe
George C. Marshall
Success of the Marshall Plan
Germany
NATO
Warsaw Pact
West Germany
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift