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Russian leader Stalin

England leader Winston Churchill

United States leader Roosevelt

Russia needed the US and England to help them fight the Germans who had come to Russia. But then the Russians didn’t need them anymore because the Germans stopped and went back away from Russia. Russia wanted to control big parts of Western Europe England and the US did not want to let them control big parts of that area. Russia wanted to control Italy when Italy’s leader Mussolini was defeated. Russia wanted to control part of Poland and put in a communist government but England and the US said they could control part of Poland but it had to be a Democratic government. Russia did take over Poland promised to hold elections but elections didn’t happen for 40 years and Poland. Wanted German reparations.

England was going to allow Russia to annex part of Poland. England and the US and Russia met in 1945 in Russia Stalin said he would enter a Pacific war

US was going to allow Russia to annex part of Poland . England and the US and Russia met in 1945 in Russia Stalin said he would enter a Pacific war. Russia had lost the 1904 Russian Japanese war and lost territory and Roosevelt said russia could get it back

Yalta Conference England US Russia each thought they understood each other but they understood different things. Germany would remain divided there was a Russian zone that would serve as another nation in Germany. US friendly zone that would remain friendly to the West. The Soviet Union siphoned between 1.5 and $3 billion a year out of the zone of occupation of Germany

China the leader of China named Chiang did not have control of most of his country communist forces led by Mao were taking over. A Civil War was going to happen

Japan the ad states lifted restrictions on Japan and rapid economic growth happened

Italy

UN Yalta conference United Nations Britain and France Soviet Union China five major powers each were permanently represented each had a veto power other nations came and went April 25, 1945

 

containment doctrine the new American policy after the grand alliance of 1945 when away and the Atlantic charter ideals president Roosevelt supported disappeared it was a policy meant to contain the threat of further Soviet expansion

Truman Doctrine 1947 policy of the United States to support three people resisting their attempts by armed minorities gave money to the Greek government to defeat communist bases for American foreign-policy the next 30 years it accommodated the status quo did not attempt to overturn communist government Russia and Stalin had in Eastern Europe. But it did not allowed to go out of its existing present boundaries

Marshall plan $12 billion in American aid to Europe. European industrial production rose 64%. Communist strength in the member nations was declining. A part of the containment policy proposal to aid in the economic reconstruction of Western Europe they did not want Europe to be an economic drain on the US so it wanted to quickly rebuild so people would be able to take care of themselves. Strong European market for American goods too. Economic assistance to all European nations including the Soviet Union

Czechoslovakia February 1948 a sudden war new communist government they are now

West Germany American British and French sectors of Germany and Berlin even though Berlin was inside the Soviet zone. Truman wanted Berlin Stalin did not want to give it up. The United states airlifted food and tons of materials keeping 2 million people alive for 10 months through a Soviet blockade in 1949 Stalin lifted the blockade and Germany was split into two nations the federal republic in the West and the Democratic republic in the East into became official East and West Germany.

NATO 12 nations signed an agreement April 4, 1949 North Atlantic Treaty organization declaring an armed attack against one would be considered an attack against all the NATO countries would maintain a standing military force in Europe to defend against the Soviet union

Warsaw Pact the Soviet Union created alliance with other communist government in Eastern Europe

1949 USSR exploded at first atomic weapon and Chaing Chinese government collapsed and communist took over China many believed China was an extension now of the Soviet Union. Japan was now a big buffer against Asian communism.

National Security Council Truman called together to talk about American form policy in 1950 called NSC-68 outlined a shift in the American physician said the United States cannot depend on other nations and must establish active leadership against communism a defense budget four times bigger than before