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Warm Up # 23
 How are Communism, Capitalism and Socialism
different as Economic Systems?
Roots of the Cold War
 During WWI and WWII, the US and USSR are allies.
 Roosevelt and Stalin work together to defeat Hitler.
 However, US and other Western nations aided Czar
during the Russian Revolution
 Don’t want communism
 1944 Roosevelt developed slogan : “the war on fascism
ends; the war on capitalism begins.”
A little about Joseph Stalin
 Leader of Soviet Union from 1922 – 1952
 Communist to the core and saw WWII as his
opportunity to spread it.
 Gulag work camps to eliminate opponents
 Stalled fighting Hitler in Poland so it
would be easier for him to put communist
leaders in charge later.
 Soviet forces eliminated Nazis but also
Nazi resisters who wanted old leadership
 Purged Jews in order to gain friends in
Middle East
 Paranoid and often killed his own soldiers
Yalta Conference – Feb. 1945
 Big 3: Roosevelt, Churchill,
Stalin
 Repair war torn Europe
 Stalin demands/gets control
of Eastern Europe and
occupies it with Red Army.
Potsdam Conference – July 1945
 Meet again after Germany Surrender.
 This time Truman, Churchill, Stalin, and other EUR
leaders
Outcomes at Potsdam
 Germany surrenders
all conquered lands
 Germany pays 10%
of Soviet damages in
occupied zone
 Military occupation
and rebuilding of
Germany
 Divided into 4 zones,
Berlin divided too.
Iron Curtain Descends
 Phrase from a
Churchill speech
 Refers to the
division of
Communist
controlled Eastern
Europe and
Capitalist Western
Europe
Is Stalin an Enemy?
 Communism is spreading rapidly.
 Domino Theory: Idea that if one nation falls to
communism, so will its neighbor, and so on.
Truman Doctrine
 U.S. would:
 Not attack existing communist governments
 Provide aid to any democratic government seeking to
defend itself from communism
 Policy of containment
 Called for large military in peace time
 Led to the formation of the CIA
Reading Like a Historian: Who Started
the Cold War?