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- Meeting to determine what to do with Nazi Germany
- Roosevelt agreed to many demands by Stalin to gain their favor

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- Meeting of the Big 3
- Post-war issues discussed (including the division of Germany)
- Creation of UN
- Agreed that Russia would join the war in the Pacific

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- First meeting after Roosevelt's death
- More decisions of the occupation of Germany and war reparations
- Marks the early ideological conflicts of the transition of presidents; Roosevelt wanted to maintain peace and establish pacifist policies while Truman directly opposed his views as he was very hard-lined with Stalin

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- Churchill gave a speech announcing the start of the Cold War due to the division of nations because of communism

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- expressed the dangers of the spread of communism in Europe and brought about the popular idea of containment that was a main source of Cold War tensions

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- a way to restore economic stability in Europe by providing dollar loans to non-communist states.
- helped prevent post-war depression
- restoration of economic stability was believed to be a substantial way of containing communism
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- USSR blocked western allies' passage railways, roads and canal access to berlin
- allies organized airlift which brought ~9000 tons of supplies to western Berlin; USSR didn't stop because they didn't want open conflict

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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- called for a system of collective defense; agreement to collectively attack anyone who attacked nations that signed the treaty

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- Soviet response to NATO, collective treaty in Poland
- 8 members, motivated by SE desires to maintain control over military forces in central and Eastern Europe

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- conflict between Dem. Repub. of Korea in the South and Repub. of Korea in the North
- US got involved when the North (aided by the USSR) invaded the South
- US and UN sided with the South, Korea divided at the 38th parallel

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- July 26th movement; overthrow of Batista
- initially failed, but through perseverance Batista's government was replaced by Castro's socialist regime

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- USSR gave Cuba missiles to be launched into the US
- JFK issued a blockade of ALL military shipments to Cuba
- The U.S. and the Soviet Union came to an agreement in which the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba, to which the U.S. would secretly remove missiles from Greece and Turkey

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- communist north vs democratic south vietnam conflict; North was aided by the USSR and the south by the US
- Vietnam acted as a war ground for the US and USSR
- one of the deadliest Civil war proxy conflicts

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- Iranian people didnt like the Shah who was supported by the US
- he was abdicated and exiled
- Afterwards, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran and assumed the role of Supreme Leader after Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic republic in spring of 1979.

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- Roosevelt-Stalin relationship thought to be cooperative in the post-war era
- Roosevelt never lived to see the end of the war, advisors wanted him to have a harsher stance on spheres of influence

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- not much foreign policy experience
- thought Russia would make concessions with the US if the US gave them loans
- Gave financial assistance to european countries suffering after WWII, appealed to those countries - an attempt to deflect communism and its threat in europe due to proximity to the USSR

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- New Look policy
To maintain the vitality of the American economy while still building sufficient strength to prosecute the Cold War

Rely on nuclear weapons to deter communist aggression or to fight a war if absolutely necessary

Use the CIA to carry out secret/covert actions against subversive governments and/or leaders

Strengthen allies and win the friendship of neutral governments

- McCarthyism and Red Scare - fear of communism in government and of soviet spies

- established NASA in the midst of the space race

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- approved plan to take down Fidel Castro but the plan failed catastrophically

- construction of the Berlin wall after meeting between Kennedy and Khrushchev about "solving" the berlin issue

- Cuban Missile crisis where it was discovered that Cuba had ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US

- developed the Peace Corps that gathered volunteers to work in developing countries to capitalize on the decolonization process

- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between US, GB and USSR limited nuclear testing