Short term causes of the cold war
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- Short term causes of the cold war
- Bretton Woods Conference USA 1944
- Created the International Monetary Fund. Organisation aiming to promote international monetary cooperation and international free trade.
- Establishment of the World Bank. Support global economic growth, international free trade and loans to countries in need
- USSR attends and agree to join for a $6 billion loans
- But they had to open up Eastern Europe to US goods
- USSR refuse
- But they had to open up Eastern Europe to US goods
- Ideological differences
- Communism- theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
- Capitalism- n economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- Teheran 1943
- Delay of opening up the second front
- Churchill and Stalin carved up eastern Europe.
- The USA opposed this agreement
- Yalta 1945
- The division of Germany and the trial of Nazi war criminals
- The USSR didn't want Germany to re-emerge as a military threat
- Pledged to have free elections in Poland
- Churchill wanted to have the exile government in London to be in power
- Stalin wanted influence over Poland as it has been invaded 3 times via Poland in the 20th century
- The division of Germany and the trial of Nazi war criminals
- Potsdam 1945
- USA was unhappy with the spread of the red army across Eastern Europe and the influence Stalin had over their governments
- Stalin felt insulted when Truman didn't tell him about the A bomb
- Other Tensions
- The discovery of the mass grave in Katyn forest containing 10,000 officers
- USSR denied involvement
- The Soviets were accused of allowing the crushing of the poles by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising 1944
- The discovery of the mass grave in Katyn forest containing 10,000 officers
- Bretton Woods Conference USA 1944
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