1. Warm Up # 23
How are Communism, Capitalism and Socialism different as Economic Systems?

2. Roots of the Cold War During WWI and WWII, the US and USSR are allies.
Roosevelt and Stalin work together to defeat Hitler.
However, US and other Western nations aided Czar during the Russian Revolution
Don’t want communism
1944 Roosevelt developed slogan : “the war on fascism ends; the war on capitalism begins.”

3. A little about Joseph Stalin
Leader of Soviet Union from 1922 – 1952
Communist to the core and saw WWII as his opportunity to spread it.
Gulag work camps to eliminate opponents
Stalled fighting Hitler in Poland so it would be easier for him to put communist leaders in charge later.
Soviet forces eliminated Nazis but also Nazi resisters who wanted old leadership
Purged Jews in order to gain friends in Middle East
Paranoid and often killed his own soldiers

4. Yalta Conference – Feb. 1945 Big 3: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
Repair war torn Europe
Stalin demands/gets control of Eastern Europe and occupies it with Red Army.

5. Potsdam Conference – July 1945
Meet again after Germany Surrender.
This time Truman, Churchill, Stalin, and other EUR leaders

6. Outcomes at Potsdam Germany surrenders all conquered lands
Germany pays 10% of Soviet damages in occupied zone
Military occupation and rebuilding of Germany
Divided into 4 zones, Berlin divided too.

7. Iron Curtain Descends Phrase from a Churchill speech
Refers to the division of Communist controlled Eastern Europe and Capitalist Western Europe

8. Is Stalin an Enemy? Communism is spreading rapidly.
Domino Theory: Idea that if one nation falls to communism, so will its neighbor, and so on.

9. Truman Doctrine U.S. would: Not attack existing communist governments
Provide aid to any democratic government seeking to defend itself from communism
Policy of containment
Called for large military in peace time
Led to the formation of the CIA

10. Reading Like a Historian: Who Started the Cold War?