EUROPE AT THE END OF WWII

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EUROPE AT THE END OF WWII
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THE ORIGIN OF THE COLD WAR

• THE YALTA CONFERENCE (February 4-11, 1945)
• FREE AND UNFETTERED ELECTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE
  (1945-7)
• COMMUNIST VICTORY (ROMANIA, BULGARIA,
  CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND)
• COMMUNIST DEFEAT (HUNGARY)
• CHURCHILLS SPEECH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE,
  FULTON, MO (March 5, 1946)

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THE IRON CURTAIN
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THE COLD WAR IN ASIA
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THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE

• TRUMAN DOCTRINE (MARCH 12, 1947)
• 400 MILLION (ASSISTANCE FOR GREECE AND TURKEY)
• THE MARSHALL PLAN (JUNE 5, 1947)
• BY 1952 ( 13 BILLION APPROPRIATED)
• THE MOLOTOV PLAN (1947-9)
• THE COUNCIL ON MUTUAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
  (COMECON)
• NATO (APRIL 4, 1949)
• POPE PIUS XII EXCOMMUNICATED THOSE WHO VOTED FOR
  COMMUNISTS (JULY 13, 1949)
• THE EASTERN EUROPEAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE TREATY
  (MAY 14, 1955)