1. 1945

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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

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

12. The General Assembly

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

14. The Security Council
Burkina Faso

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

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

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

19. 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

20. Divided Berlin

21. Iron curtain pics

22. Iron curtain pics

23. Iron curtain pics

24. The Iron Curtain Map

25. Iron curtain pics

26. Iron curtain pics

27. Soviets Tighten Their Hold
Czechoslovakia
Hungary & Romania
East Germany

28. 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

29. 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.”

30. USSR

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

33. The End

34. 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.

35. 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.

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

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