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Cold War
United Nations
established 1944.
Yalta Conference
February 1945
Terms of the agreement (USA, GB, USSR)
1. Soviet government in Poland
2. Declaration of Liberated Europe
3. Germany divided (USA, GB, France, USSR)
After the war, the Soviet Union quickly seized
control over Romania and Poland. The Cold War
had begun. It lasted from 1946 to 1990.
Why was Truman determined to revive
German industry?
• Answer the question above.
• Stalin wanted reparations (payments) from
Germany.
• Stalin wanted Poland, Romania, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia.
• The Declaration of Liberated Europe was dead.
• Many countries became satellites of the USSR.
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic an ‘iron curtain’ has descended across
the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals
of the ancient states of Central and Eastern
Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna,
Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all
these famous cities and the populations around
them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere,
and all are subject, in one form or another, not
”
only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in
some cases increasing measure of control from
Moscow.
—Winston Churchill, Westminster College,
Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946
The Long Telegram
By X
George Kennan
Clement Attlee, Prime
Minister of Britain. Had just
replaced Churchill.
Harry Truman, President of
the United States. Had just
replaced Roosevelt.
Josef Stalin, General
Secretary of the Central
Committee of the
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
How did Stalin think?
• “It is enough that the people know there was
an election. The people who cast the votes
decide nothing. The people who count the
votes decide everything.”
• “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We
would not let our enemies have guns, why
should we let them have ideas.”
• “Death is the solution to all problems. No man
- no problem.”