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• Political systems – State controlled all property and economic activity
• Totalitarian Government
• No opposing parties
• Political System: Capitalist
• Private citizens controlled almost all economic activity
• Voting• Competing Political
Parties
•Hope for Peace•USA & USSR use
the UN to spread their influence over others
• June 26, 1945
• Big Three: USA, USSR, Great Britain
• Harry S. Truman’s Test as a diplomat
• USSR not keep promise of free elections in Eastern Europe
• Countries dominated by Soviet Union
• Countries that Stalin implemented Communist Governments
• Division of Europe Division of Europe Between Between Democratic and Democratic and Communist Communist countriescountries
•Conflict between USA and USSR in which neither nation confronted each other on the battlefield
•Keep Soviet influence from spreading (Greece & Turkey)
•400 Million to Greece and Turkey
•George Marshall Secretary of State
• June 1947•Help Western
Europe with money (13 Billion)
•Europe in chaos after WWII
• Three Nations unify Western Europe (map on page 605)
• Stalin close rail routes to West Berlin
• No food – only 5 weeks• Americans and Brits fly
food and supplies to West Berlin
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Western European Nations (12 members)
• Military support to each other
• End of U.S. isolationism