The End of the Grand Alliance
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- The End of the Grand Alliance
- Churchill
- Germany should be rebuilt
- Roosevelt
- Europe should be democratic (difference political parties working together to win voters' support in free elections)
- USA was first to build atomic bomb (an unbeatable advantage until USSR caught up in 1949)
- Soviet Union did not do what was agreed with Poland
- Government was supposed to include multiple political parties but only had a communist party
- Stalin
- Germany to pay reparations - never strong enough to start a war again
- Europe should be democratic (communism truly represented workers)
- Post German surrender (May 1945), Grand Alliance started to come to an end
- Roosevelt was the key figure holding the alliance together (US and USSR could work together through UN)
- Successor Truman. like Churchill, was more suspicious of the Soviet Union and this increased tension between the Allies
- Roosevelt was the key figure holding the alliance together (US and USSR could work together through UN)
- USA dropped atomic bombs in Japan - Aug 1945 - (huge military advantage)
- Roosevelt was prepared to work with Stalin but died (Apr 1945), replaced by Truman (much less trust after Poland incident) - atomic bomb meant he could push Stalin around at Potsdam
- Stalin disliked Truman pushing him around at Potsdam
- Increased tensions between the superpowers and the start of the Cold War.
- Britain had been on winning side but was economically exhausted - unable to stand up to the Soviet Union on its own, only an ally of US. Cold War became increasingly about the relationship between the US and the USSR
- Increased tensions between the superpowers and the start of the Cold War.
- Stalin disliked Truman pushing him around at Potsdam
- Roosevelt was prepared to work with Stalin but died (Apr 1945), replaced by Truman (much less trust after Poland incident) - atomic bomb meant he could push Stalin around at Potsdam
- Churchill
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