Chapter 18: Cold War Conflicts

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Chapter 18 Cold War Conflicts
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Section 1 Origins of the Cold War
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USSR

• Political systems State controlled all property
  and economic activity
• Totalitarian Government
• No opposing parties

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USA

• Political System Capitalist
• Private citizens controlled almost all economic
  activity
• Voting
• Competing Political Parties

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Joseph Stalin
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Harry S. Truman
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United Nations

• Hope for Peace
• USA USSR use the UN to spread their influence
  over others
• June 26, 1945

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Postdam Conference

• Big Three USA, USSR, Great Britain
• Harry S. Trumans Test as a diplomat
• USSR not keep promise of free elections in
  Eastern Europe

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RUSSIA
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Free-Elections
Democracy
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Satellite Nations

• Countries dominated by Soviet Union
• Countries that Stalin implemented Communist
  Governments

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Iron Curtain

• Division of Europe Between Democratic and
  Communist countries

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COLD WAR

• Conflict between USA and USSR in which neither
  nation confronted each other on the battlefield

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TRUMAN DOCTRINE

• Keep Soviet influence from spreading (Greece
  Turkey)
• 400 Million to Greece and Turkey

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MARSHALL PLAN

• George Marshall Secretary of State
• June 1947
• Help Western Europe with money (13 Billion)
• Europe in chaos after WWII

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Berlin Airlift

• 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

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West Germany
Federal Republic of Germany
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EAST GERMANY
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
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NATO

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Western European Nations (12 members)
• Military support to each other
• End of U.S. isolationism

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