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War Ends
VE Day May 8, 1945
VJ Day September 2, 1945
Origins of the Cold War
Different Ambitions leads to clashes
Capitalism v. Communism
Democracy v. Totalitarianism
Wartime suspicions
Delay in attacking Europe
Atom bomb
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UN Created
Conference opens in San Francisco
Two Months of debate
June 26, 1945 UN Charter signed
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Harry S. Truman becomes President on death of Roosevelt April 12, 1945
Didn't know about bomb
Tough could make difficult decisions
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July 1945 Conference in Potsdam
Yalta promises
Occupied zones, free elections
Status
Poland elections prevented, banning of Democratic parties
Bargaining
Soviets sought Reparations, Truman objects
US wanted access to markets
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Results
Occupation finalized
Issuance of a statement of aims of the occupation of Germany by the Allies: demilitarization, denazification, democratization, decentralization and decartelization.
Japan Ultimatum
Stalin installs governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Poland
Satellites, Iron Curtain
Stalin gives speech Capitalism and Communism incompatible, war inevitable
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February 1946 US adopts Containment policy
No expansion
March 1947 Truman doctrine
“support free people who are resisting subjugation”
US takes over support of Greece and Turkey
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The Marshall Plan- June 1947
Aide to European Nations that needed it
Not aimed at country or doctrine
16 countries received 13 Billion dollars in aid
Revived Western Europe
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June 1948 - Stalin closes roads into West Berlin
Food and Fuel for five weeks
US and Britain initiates Airlift
327 days 2.3 million tons
May 1949 Soviets lift blockade
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May 1949 Western German zone united to form Federal Republic of Germany
Soviets respond by creating German Democratic Republic
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Fear of Soviet aggression leads to defensive military alliance - April 4, 1949
Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal
United States, Canada
Greece, Turkey, West Germany by 1955
Origins of the Cold War