1. Chapter 26, Section 1

2. United States vs. Soviet Union United StatesSoviet Union

3. United States vs. Soviet Union United States  Capitalism – citizens control economy  Democracy – voting by the people  Didn’t like how Stalin had been allied with Hitler Soviet Union  Communism – state controlled all property and economic activity  Totalitarian government (no opposing political parties)  Stalin resented US delay in helping them against Hitler  Stalin didn’t like that US kept atomic bomb a secret

4. United Nations  Developed in 1945  Peace keeping organization  A revamped League of Nations that the US supported from the start

5. President Truman  Many Americans doubted his leadership  Congress didn’t let him make many decisions  Didn’t even know about the atomic bomb until the Interim Committee

6. Potsdam Conference  Truman’s first real test as president  July 1945  Meeting between US, Soviet Union, and Great Britain (same as Yalta but after Germany had surrendered)  Truman realized that Stalin did not keep his promise made at Yalta of free elections in his territory; banned all democratic parties  Soviets wanted to punish Germany more  Truman wanted to spread democracy and improve economic stability in Eastern Europe

7. Satellite Nations  Countries surrounding Soviet Union in which the Soviets dominated  Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland

8. Policy of Containment  US policy during the Cold War of preventing the spread of Communism (keeping Communism contained to just Eastern Europe)

9. “Iron Curtain”  Phrase used by Winston Churchill to explain the division of Europe into democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe  Stalin claimed this phrase was an act of war

10. Homework due tomorrow (pages 812 – 815):  Cold War – define; how long did it last  Truman Doctrine – define; which countries were immediately affected; how much money did they receive  Marshall Plan – define; include goal  Division of Germany – 1948; Stalin’s reaction to West Berlin  Berlin Airlift – define; explain what happened and why  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – define; significance to the US