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Conflicting Postwar Goals American View “To bring democracy & economic opportunity to the conquered nations of Europe & Asia”

Conflicting Postwar Goals Soviet View “Determined to rebuild in ways that would protect it’s own interests”

* avoid fighting each other the Cold War * avoid fighting each other * block each other’s goals

Block each other’s goals: Each side attempts to undermine the other through: infiltration espionage Disinformation (propaganda)

Communism gov’t controls all totalitarian gov’t no individual rights party loyalty (was a factor)

Cold War Spending Arms Race ($6 Trillion) $25,000 per person USA still spends $35 billion a year ($96 million a day / $4 million per hour) $100-$400 billion to clean up

The United Nations USA? About 2 Billion (23%) Membership Fees? Another 2 billion in donations 2nd Japan 20% Membership Fees?

The General Assembly

General Assembly The United Nations Trusteeship Security Council Economic & Social Council International Court of Justice Secretariat

The Security Council http://www.un.org/sc/members.asp Burkina Faso

Churchill – Roosevelt - Stalin Yalta Conference (1945) Churchill – Roosevelt - Stalin

Yalta Conference division of Germany $10 billion to Russia? Poland

The Iron Curtain p. 744 Churchill: “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across Europe”

Divided Germany Iron Curtain – A term used by Winston Churchill to describe the separating of Those communist lands of East Europe from the West. Divided Germany

Divided Berlin

Iron curtain pics

Iron curtain pics

Iron curtain pics

The Iron Curtain Map

Iron curtain pics

Iron curtain pics

Soviets Tighten Their Hold Czechoslovakia Hungary & Romania East Germany

Policy of Containment George Kennan Recognized that Eastern Europe (American Diplomat) Recognized that Eastern Europe was already lost the USA should resist Soviet attempts to spread communism elsewhere

Truman Doctrine 1947 Greece & Turkey $400 Million in aid & military bases in each “we must assist free people to work out their own destinies in their own way.”

USSR

Truman Doctrine Huge Success! It signalled the end of “isolationist” policies

The End

Describe an example of a threat your parents fear might influence you Describe an example of a threat your parents fear might influence you. List three ways your parents could try to “contain” this threatening influence.

policies and compare them with the postwar containment Make a list Make a list of parental containment policies and compare them with the postwar containment policies of the United States government.

Read page 747 Cause and Effects Why is it important to study the causes and effects of historical events?

List causes of the cold war and events today that are similar to those that caused the cold war.