Cold War

Big Three - Britain, USA and USSR

Tehran and Yalta - Europe's future

Tehran  - 1943 - Way to defeat Nazis. In addition to this, what happens to Europe and Germany.

Britain and USA had different thinking compared to USSR. A little bit of tension.

USSR could claim a "sphere of influence" in Eastern Europe. Soviet policies and ideas could be created.

Good Relationship :)

Yalta - 1945 - Free elections can be held. But USA and Britain thought of this as lots of political parties competing for votes. USSR thought of this as communist parties should run elections as they truly represented the people.

UN replaces League of Nations

Alright Relationship :|

Boundaries of Poland agreed

Germany and Berlin divided into four parts. BIg Three plus France.

Nazi leaders tried for war crimes at Nuremberg

"Would the country ever join again?"

Tensions high as ****. Roosevelt died, Truman replaced him. Truman was much more suspicious and less willingly to compromise.

USA is capitalist. USSR is communist.

Communism would control state control of industry and agriculture.

USA cared more about private enterprise.

USA had many political parties. USSR had one.

USSR wanted to rule the world. USA were like WTF.

USSR were scared of USA because they did not want Eastern Europe to be influenced by USA.

USA had an Atom Bomb, yet kept it a secret. USA dropped bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima - August 1945.

USA could work on their own. They didn't need USSR help. They did decline USSR's help.

This lead to the arms race.

Truman Doctrine - March 1947 - Support any nation threatened by communist takeover. For example, USA gave $400 million to Turkey and Greece to stop communism from spreading.

Marshall Plan - June 1947 - $17 billion to European countries to rebuild economies. Satillite states rejected the plan

Cominform - 1947 - All communist parties were under the power of USSR

Comecon - 1949 - Counter for Marshall Plan