History The cold war GCSE Revision #1

Causes of the Cold war:

• American fear of communist attack
• Truman's (President of USA) dislike of Stalin (president of USSR)
• USSR's fear of American's atomic bomb
• USSR's dislike of capitalism (Rich and Poor)
• USSR's actions in the Soviet zone of Germany
• Americas's refusal to share nuclear secrets
• USSR's expansion west into Eastern Europe + broken election promises
• USSR's fear of American attack
• USSR's need for secure western border
• USSR's aim of speading world communism (Individual Rights)

Yalta and Potsdam:

Yalta - Feb 1945: German was not yet defeted, so, although there were tenstions about…