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- Germany was divided for 41 years into 2 nations: The Federal Republic and The German Democratic Republic
-The war showed how suspicious USA and USSR were of each other and how neither of them was willing to go to war
- NATO (Western powers) and WARSHAW PACT (Communist states in Eastern Europe)

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Stalin reopened communication because he saw the allies weren´t going anywhere (they had supplied Berlin with airplanes)

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Stalin wanted to force the west out of Berlin to show his authority because he felt that the way the US handled Germany was provocative
He cut the railways, roads and supplies to get to the west
Truman set tanks to move this (he was strong about the containment), he wanted Berlin to be a symbol of freedom behind the iron curtain

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Stalin forbade any of the eastern European states to apply for the Marshall Aid. He thought it was a way of the anti-Communists to weaken his hold. Also, he felt that USA was trying to dominate as many states as possible by making them dependent on dollars.

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Germany and Berlin were divided into 4 zones

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USA and USSR - close to war

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The Communists took over the goverment.
-1948: Communists came down hard. Anti-Soviet leaders were remove. One pro-American minister was found dead.

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-Germany
Stalin wanted to cripple Germany
Truman didnt want to make the same mistakes
-Reparations
Stalin wanted Germany to pay
Truman didn’t want to repeat the same mistakes (first world war) so he resisted this demand
-Eastern Europe
Truman adopted a get though attitude towards Stalin

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The plan was to give money to rebuild Europe.
(Congress was not so sure to accept it)
"our policy is against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos"

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USA would send money, equipment, advice to any country threatened by Communist take-over.

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The Us tried it on dessertic site

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-Roosevelt died, replaced by Harry Truman
-Truman much more anticommunist
-Suspiciuos of Stalin

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1-Stalin`s army was occupying most of Eastern Europe

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1-Stalin`s army was occupying most of Eastern Europe

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-"Defensive measure against possible future attacks"
-Communist goverment in Poland despite of poles wishes

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-Communist (Business and property owned by state)
-One-party dictatorship
-Lower living standard (SPWR industries)
-The most important thing was equality
-Other countries sould be run in the communist way
-Encouraged revolutions
-Saw what USA did as selfishly builtding its economic empire and political influence

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-1944: When the Germans retreated there were two rival groups who wanted to rule the country.
1. The monarchists: wanted the return of the king of Greece
2. The Communists: wanted Greece to be a Soviet republic.
-1945: British troops were sent to help restore order. The British supported the monarchists and the king was return to power.
-1946: URSS was not confortable with the Btitish troops, so they protested to the ONU. As the ONU did not do anything, the Communist started a civil war (to take control of Greece)
-1947: On February 24 the British troops withdraw as they could not afford the cost of a war. (USA pay them to stay and by 1950 the king was back in power)

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Only earstern European countries not controlled by Communist goverments.

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-Poland:
Stalin wanted a border
Churchill didnt aprove but as Stalins red army was already there, there wasnt much to do
Rosevelt was also unhappy. But Churchill persuaded.
The USSR agreed not to interfere in Grece.

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- Stalin: saw his policy as a way of securing himself
- Truman: saw this as the spread of Communism

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(1930) Relationship was damaged by policy of appeasement

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Communist
They signed the Nazi-Soviet pact (USSR and Germany wouldn´t attack each other)

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-Japan: Stalin would attack Japan once Germany surrendered
-Germany: divided into four parts, American, French, British and soviet
-Elections: Countries no longer of Germany, would be able to choose the goverment
-United nations: they all agreed to join the UNO to keep peace.
-War criminals: they would hunt down and punish war criminals responsible of genocide (concentration camps in Germany)
-Eastern Europe: Eastern europe should be seen as a Soviet sphere of influence.

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Feared communism

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Signed policy of appeasement

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-July-August 1945
-After war was won/Many things had changed between the leaders

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1920s suspected commnists had been persecuted in a "Red Scare"

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-February 1945
-Plan what would happen after Germanys defeat

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They had agreed that eastern Europe would be a Soviet "sphere of influence", but they had not expected such complete Communist domination.

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Between  Britain, America, USSR

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Churchill described the border between Soviet-controlled countries (Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania) and the west as iron curtain.

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-Capitalist (Business and property privately owned)
-Democracy
-Superpower = wealthiest
-Important to be free of government control
-Other countries should be run in the american way
-Alarmed by the communist theory (about spreading revolution)
- They saw what they did as "doing the right thing"