Cold War Origins

1
Cold War Origins

• The Soviet Union and Communism
• The United States and Democracy
• Era preceding WWII
• WWII Marriage of Convenience
• The Atomic Age

2
Marching to War

• Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland
• Watchful Waiting U.S. Isolation
• Arsenal of Democracy
• Lend Lease
• Invasion of the USSR
• December 7, 1941

3
Wartime Diplomacy

• Atlantic Charter
• The Fourteen Points and Four Freedoms
• Declaration of War Axis and Allies
• Europe First
• Mobilization at Home

4
African Conferences

• Casablanca and Cairo
• The Big Three
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Second Front
• African Campaigns
• Soft Underbelly Strategy
• Mistrusting your ally

5
Teheran and Yalta

• Question of Poland
• Second Front
• Postwar Germany
• War in Asia
• Spoils of War
• D-Day Invasion

6
The U.N. and Potsdam

• San Francisco, Spring 45
• FDRs Death
• Potsdam Waning days of the Alliance
• Unconditional Surrender
• The Bomb
• Postwar chessboard

7
The Cold War

• Europe in the Ashes
• Threat of Communism
• Rebirth via Marshall Plan
• Eastern Europe
• Iron Curtain

8
Containment

• Turkey and Greece
• Neutrality Abandoned
• Truman Doctrine
• Mr. X
• National Security Doctrine

9
Berlin Crisis

• A Divided City and Occupation Zones
• DeNazification
• Germany Awakening
• Stalins Gamble
• Trumans Choices
• NATO