1. From World War to Cold War

2. Yalta Conference Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet Plan post-war world
Poland
Two governments claimed right to govern: Communist and Non-Communist
FDR and Churchill think Poles should choose their own government
Stalin wants Poland to be communist since it shares a border
Compromise:
Soviets set up communist government
Promise to include former Polish leaders
Hold free elections

3. Yalta Conference Declaration of Liberated Europe
European nations can set up any democratic government they want
Get rid of all Nazism and Fascism
U.S.A., UK, and USSR promise:
Establish peace
Provide aid to European nations
Form temporary democratic governments
Support Atlantic Charter

4. Yalta Conference Germany
Divide country into four zones: France, U.S., Britain, USSR
Berlin divided into four zones
Reparations
USSR and U.S. don’t agree, causes tension

7. Tension Between U.S. and USSR
Soviets pressure king of Romania to appoint Communist government
Violates Declaration of Liberated Europe
Soviets refuse to allow more than 3 (out of 18) non-communists to govern Poland
No intention to hold free elections in Poland
Increases hostility towards each other
Leads to era of confrontation and competition: The Cold War Era

8. What Is Communism?
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Class struggle between the working class (proletariat) and the ruling class (bourgeoisie)
Nations develop in stages:
Capitalism
Communism

9. What Is Communism? Capitalism:
Business owners get rich, while laborers do the work
Creates a working-class who eventually get angry with treatment, wages, conditions, etc.
Organize
Demand Changes
Revolution needed to unseat the ruling class

11. What Is Communism?
Dissatisfaction with ruling class under capitalism leads to workers’ control of production which leads to public control
Communism:
People own everything
No private property
Wealth shared by all
Eliminate class conflict

12. Communism in the USSR Totalitarian dictatorship
Property owned by the state
No free enterprise allowed
Wealth distributed unequally
State controlled:
Media (books, television, radio, etc.)
Education
Religion
Food Production
Industrial Production
Fear