Roots of the Cold War
Roots of the Cold War
I. Growing Distrust 1. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at a Soviet Union resort called Yalta. Stalin promised that he would hold free elections in parts of Eastern Europe under his control. 2. Instead, Stalin set of Communist governments in the nations. He wanted a ring of friendly countries to protect the Soviet Union’s southern border. With this, Stalin hoped that the Soviet Union would become the world’s dominant power. 3. By 1948, most of the countries in Eastern Europe had been conquered by the Soviet Union.
II. Containing Soviet Expansion A. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan 1. In March of 1947, President Truman requested that the Congress help aid Greece and Turkey and that the U.S. would go against the spread of communism. His plan was to contain the Soviet’s communist outreach and to stop them from spreading their communist ideas. 2. Our military aid was not enough to contain the quickly-spreading communism, so Secretary of State George Marshall had a plan that would have the U.S. assist the European economies with more than $12 billion. 3. The Marshall Plan was a success and the money helped countries like France, West Germany and Italy build houses, factories, bridges, railroads, schools and hospitals.
B. The Berlin Airlift 1. Germany was divided into 4 zones, one zone for the U.S., one for France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Each zones had different countries’ troops occupying them. 2. In 1948, the Western powers wanted to unite Germany once again, but Stalin refused. He set up a blockade around Berlin, which prevented supplies from getting to West Berlin’s 2 million people. 3. We airlifted supplies to supply West Berlin for almost a year until the blockade was called off. In October of 1949, France, Great Britain and the U.S. combined their zones and called it the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, and the Soviet zone became known as East Germany.
C. Cold War
I. Growing Distrust 1. FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at a Soviet Union resort called Yalta. Stalin promised that he would hold free elections in parts of Eastern Europe under his control. 2. Instead, Stalin set of Communist governments in the nations. He wanted a ring of friendly countries to protect the Soviet Union’s southern border. With this, Stalin hoped that the Soviet Union would become the world’s dominant power. 3. By 1948, most of the countries in Eastern Europe had been conquered by the Soviet Union.
II. Containing Soviet Expansion A. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan 1. In March of 1947, President Truman requested that the Congress help aid Greece and Turkey and that the U.S. would go against the spread of communism. His plan was to contain the Soviet’s communist outreach and to stop them from spreading their communist ideas. 2. Our military aid was not enough to contain the quickly-spreading communism, so Secretary of State George Marshall had a plan that would have the U.S. assist the European economies with more than $12 billion. 3. The Marshall Plan was a success and the money helped countries like France, West Germany and Italy build houses, factories, bridges, railroads, schools and hospitals.
B. The Berlin Airlift 1. Germany was divided into 4 zones, one zone for the U.S., one for France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Each zones had different countries’ troops occupying them. 2. In 1948, the Western powers wanted to unite Germany once again, but Stalin refused. He set up a blockade around Berlin, which prevented supplies from getting to West Berlin’s 2 million people. 3. We airlifted supplies to supply West Berlin for almost a year until the blockade was called off. In October of 1949, France, Great Britain and the U.S. combined their zones and called it the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, and the Soviet zone became known as East Germany.
C. Cold War