1. Origins of the Cold War

2. Anti-Communist Pamphlet-1930’s

5. The Alliance Breaks Down
Americans and Soviets shared a common enemy during the war
U.S. and the Soviets disagreed over strategies, the status of post-war Europe, etc.
U.S.-Soviet alliance began to disintegrate after 1945

6. Occupied Europe
At the Yalta Conference the “Big Four” powers agreed to divide up Berlin and Germany into zones of occupation
Fearing another German invasion, the Soviets were very concerned with the status of Poland

7. Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Yalta Conference

8. Post-War Germany:
A Fragmented State

9. The Soviets occupied much of Eastern Europe and proceeded to establish communist “puppet regimes” there
The U.S. and other Western nations condemned these actions as unacceptable and undemocratic

10. In 1946, Winston Churchill of Britain made a speech that claimed an “Iron Curtain” of communism had descended across Europe
Stalin interpreted this statement as a call for war against the Soviet Union

13. The Bomb
Some historians have argued that Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be seen as the opening salvo of the Cold War
Soviet spies had already infiltrated the Manhattan Project to steal U.S. nuclear secrets by 1945
Soviets detonated their first bomb in 1949

14. The Cold War Goes Global
In 1947, the Soviets supported communist forces in Greece and Turkey
Truman believed he needed to take action to stop the spread of communism there
George F. Kennan suggested that “containment” would be the most effective way to deal with communist aggression

15. “I believe it must be the policy of the
United States to support free people
who are resisting attempted subjugation
by armed minorities or by outside pressure.”
President Harry Truman, 1947

18. Asia First military test of containment was in Korea in 1950
American effort to contain communism to North Vietnam had failed by the 1970’s
U.S. recognized Taiwan as the only legitimate gov’t of China until 1970’s