2.  The end of WW II marked the beginning of a new conflict called THE COLD WAR  this will dominate Europe and the world until the late 1980’s  Cold War was a struggle between the Soviet Union and its allies v. the United States and its allies 1. military differences 2. political differences 3. ideological differences

3. THE TEHRAN CONFERENCE 1943 1. Decide on the future course of the war 2. Churchill wants an attack through the Balkans 3. Stalin and FDR want an invasion of the continent through France 4. Agree to partition Germany into zone of Allied occupation

4. THE YALTA CONFERENCE FEB. 1945 1. Defeat of Germany is about to come 2. The Red Army has liberated and is occupying most of Eastern and Central Europe 3. Stalin wants Eastern and Central Europe to be a Soviet sphere of influence  barrier against the West 4. FDR wants free elections in Eastern Europe 5. FDR wants Soviet help against Japan 6. Agreement to create THE UNITED NATIONS

5. DON’T SMOKE SMOKING IS BAD, MMMMMMKAY? I’m a hypocrite

6. THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE JULY 1945 1. The war against Hitler was over 2. FDR had died in April 1945/HARRY TRUMAN is new U.S. president 3. Churchill has been voted out of office/replaced by CLEMENT ATLEE of the Labour Party 4. Allies now mistrust each other 5. Truman wants free elections/Stalin will only allow pro-Soviet communist puppet regimes in Eastern Europe

7. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.