The Cold War Europe!! by Razi Penny https://padlet.com/rpenny24/i8qdrydz3dg2hlw6 Made with coolness en-us 2022-03-18 15:22:49 UTC 2022-03-24 12:40:53 UTC hello@padlet.com The Potsdam Conference rpenny24 https://padlet.com/rpenny24/i8qdrydz3dg2hlw6/wish/2102217842
  • On august 2, 1945 the conference occurred. 
  • The leaders that attended this conference were Stalin, Truman, and Attlee
  • A few of the agreements were, demilitarize Germany, ban the Nazi party, and that Germany pay reparations
  • The outcome of this caused relations between the USSR and USA worsen due to trust.
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  • The speech took place on march 5th 1946
  • Was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri
  • Churchill said that " an iron curtain has descended across Europe" referring to communism
  • Stalin saw this as a " call to war against the soviet union "
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  • Us foreign policy established in 1947
  • Truman Doctrine committed the United States to a foreign policy based on Kennan's strategy of containment
  • Established by President Harry Truman
  • Provided economic and military aid to countries like Greece and Turkey
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  • Took place in 1947 
  • depended on maintaining a balance of power in Europe
  •  America found that there was a great appeal toward communism. So certain measures had to be taken to advance American aims
  • U.S. Committed to containment after
    Chinese civil war 1949
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  • The Marshall Plan was a U.S. plan initiated by the Secretary of State George Marshall and implemented from 1948 to 1951
  •  was to aid in the economic recovery of Europe after World War II by offering certain European countries substantial funds
  • It offered all European nations including the Soviet Union generous funding to rebuild their economies as long as the money was spent on goods made in the United States
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  • occurred in 1948 
  • it was A 327-day operation 
  • the U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
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  • stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • The Berlin Crisis triggered the formation if NATO as the Berlin Blockade highlighted the Soviet threat to Western Europe
  • the berlin airlift showed that even if Western European states were to join together they still wouldn't be a match for the Soviet Union They need support from the USA
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  • The Warsaw fact was a military alliance between all of the communist east European countries, headed by the Soviet Union in 1955
  • It was designed as a response to NATO Members were to support each other if attacked
  • The USSR responded to NATO by creating the Warsaw Pact 
  • was a military alliance of Eastern European countries. The countries agreed to respect each other's independence and to defend each other in the event of war
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