History- The Cold War 1
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- History- The Cold War 1
- Yalta and Potsdam
- Yalta
- Big 3- Roosevelt- US, Stalin- USSR & Churchill- Britain
- Ger divided into 4 zones: France- Southwest, Britain- Northwest, USA- South & USSR- East
- Berlin divided in same way
- USSR gets their "Sphere of Influence" in E. EU betwen themselves and Ger
- USSR liberated the countries of E.EU
- All agreed to join new and improved LofN, the United Nations
- Potsdam
- US had just tested the Atomic Bomb, Stalin felt threaterned when Truman told him with glee
- Big 3- Truman- US, Stalin- USSR & Atlee- Britain
- There was no war or Hitler anymore
- Truman= very anti-Communist
- The USSR's Red Army had liberated the E. EU countries but stayed to spread communnism- Truman and Stalin could not reach an agreement over free elections in Europe
- Yalta
- Ideological Differences
- USA= Capitalist, USSR= Communist
- Believed very differently of how the world should be run
- Capitalism
- Democracy= free elections
- Property and businesses were owned by private individuals & companies
- USA believed that Communism was evil and threatened their way of life
- Communism
- Dictatorship- no votes, industry run by the gov
- People were supposed to be equal, enjoying the same levels of wealth and standard of living
- Believed that the rights of the individual were not as important as the whole of society- restrictions on individual's freedom's
- Yalta and Potsdam
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