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During the Conference, Stalin demanded that 4 million German workers should be included in the reparations and was endorsed by both Churchill and President Roosevelt in Yalta agreements. He expected for the economic and social hardships to spark socialism, but needed German resources to rearm and help rebuild the Soviet Union.

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Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt discussed the when Germany would be defeated and the need of a complete surrender during this conference. The most significant subject of this conference however was the decision to divide the nation of Germany in sections to occupy it after the War.

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After meeting in February at Yalta, the Allied Powers discussed similar points to that conference in Potsdam. However, the leaders of the United States and United Kingdom had been replaced which allowed Stalin to strategically sell the strength of the USSR leading to the US and UK being helpless when trying to eject the Soviets from occupying parts of Europe

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The United States and Great Britain combined their German occupation zones into one to allay British economic distress by coordinating administration and economies of the sectors.

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Churchill attacked the Soviet Union for exerting their will power over eastern Europe; Divided between totalitarian and free idealism, its duty of free countries to prevent further spread of communism.

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Manhattan Project and Dropping of the Atomic Bomb 1939-1946

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Manhattan Project and Dropping of the Atomic Bomb 1939-1946

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As Truman became the new leader of the US, he was informed of the secret development of the atomic bomb, which he had no prior knowledge of. The creation of these nuclear weapons changed the entire capacity of destruction during war however, Stalin downplayed the importance of it. After the Potsdam conference, the United States dropped the bomb on the Japanese regions of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki, ending the war in the Pacific Theatre.

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Greece fell into the British's influence; However, the reintroduction of a constitutional monarchy led to a civil war between Greek communists and royalists. Since Turkey was also met with the threat of communist expansionism, this led to the United States confronting the matter, declaring that they will provide military assistance to both Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of communism.

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A plan developed by the United States in order to give aid to countries from the devastation from WW2 as long as they were democratic. This was also another way to prevent the spread of communism in Europe.

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France joined with the United States and Great Britain to create Trizonia, leading to the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Soviets then established a socialist state called the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the SSD/Statsi secret police as Marxism-Leninism integrated into education, media, and the economy.

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After Stalin viewed the actions of the United States and Great Britain as a violation of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, he made the decision to begin a blockade of railways, roadways, and waterways from East Germany into the West. Although the Soviets believed that they were victorious, the Berlin Airlift (Operation Vittles).

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The United States and the United Kingdom supplied Berlin with an average of 13,000 tons of supplies per day throughout the 323 days of airlift to ensure the area was well supplied and to increase publicity for western ideology.

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An agreement signed by Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg to create a defensive alliance and the Western European Union against the Soviet Union.

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Initially, the Treaty of Brussels focused on preventing the expansion of communism, in which NATO included a mutual defense agreement. Western European countries wanted military assistance as the United States wanted terms for assisting based on coordination and commitment to the organization.

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As a response to the Marshall Plan and the ERP, the Council for Economic Assistance (or COMECON) was an economic programme that had the objective of providing stability to nations of East Europe (Poland, Romania, Hungary, etc.). The organization was later expanded to Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam. Although the initial plan was to be equal to all nations within the programme, the USSR held a majority of land, population, and resources leading to a focus of policies on the nation.

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In April 1, 1949 the 1 2 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty, in which they all agreed that an attack on one would be considered an attack on all, and that they would coordinate joint military action in the event o such an attack, with the specific exclusion of attacks in colonial territories

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The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet response to NATO. It consisted of the USSR's satellite states and was also a collective security agreement.