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Objective 7.2- The Cold War Begins

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from sticky hidden in the Baltic to Trieste in Adriatic  two major super-powers emerge from World War II in the United States who gets power in World War II their military led the way fighting against the axis the men and women on the homefront Supply the soldiers with all the goods necessary to win a war and the people of how do states use their minds to develop new technology that would help lead them into the future the other superpower emerge from the East and I was the Soviet Union they prove vital in the war fighting off a top and closing down the Eastern Front the Soviet Union was practicing a new type of government communism and they began to thrive in an attempt to prove their way of life these two superpowers will butthead for more than 40 years so where did all this Miss trust again do you remember this  FDR Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta in to discuss a plan for the war's end and there's three main achievements of the meeting number one after the war Germany would be divided into four military zone occupied by the allies number to Starwood allow free Democratic elections in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe and number three the Soviets would declare war on Japan and the United States Soviet Union did do its job and helping to divide Germany and they also help the United States by declaring war on Japan but they fell put in one area the Soviet Union did not hold to its promise to allow free elections in Europe instead they held to install Communist governments in east Europe the Cold War between 1945 and 1991 in which the United States and the Soviet Union ideological World dominance without directly confronting each other at note time during the Cold War did American and Soviet troops directly fight each other across the world add States and the Soviet Union differ greatly rusted Stalin because of the non-aggression treaty kids sign with Hitler before World War II by contrast the Soviet Union sought to install communist regimes in the newly liberated countries of Eastern this would create a block of communist allies in Eastern Europe and would serve as a source of protection in case the West decided to invade he also sought to capture resources of Eastern Europe installing hated the West because of the secret atomic bomb that they had withheld from him and for the delay in attacking Hitler in the Western Front during World War II sample of where we see the Divide between communism and democracy is with the division of Germany  after World War II Germany was split up an occupied as prescribed it y'all turn me would be divided into three zones hard by the United States England and France Easter me which is the larger Zone would be held by the Soviet the city of Berlin was also split into four military zone held by the United States England France and the Soviet Union the Soviet Union again got the largest piece to Soviet occupy the Eastern European nations taken from Hitler the continent was now divided between a democratic Western Europe and a communist Eastern Europe the line that divided Democratic Western Europe in communist Eastern Europe was known as the iron curly 1946 Stalin had installed Communist governments throughout Eastern Europe Soviet occupied countries Czechoslovakia Poland Hungary Romania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments who are Allied to Moscow and answer to Stalin at Yalta stolen headers for Churchill and Roosevelt that he will allow free Democratic elections throughout Eastern Europe after the war however when these elections were held Stalin decreed that all democratic Mason County from running in the election this is sure that the Communists can't eat some parties that we running would win the election rise to power by definition this was a violation of the ultimate because the chance with Eastern European countries under communist rule they became known as Soviet satellite nations forming a communist Bloc against the West use these nations as economic colonies for the betterment of the Soviet Union and also as military and political allies in case the West decided to attack that's how I still need from the Soviet Union Truman decide to stop babying the Soviets United States adopt a policy of containment this policy stays with the United States with resist Soviet attempts to expand his power and spread communism to other free countries the United States pledge military force and economic aid to countries who resisted Soviet advances in March of 1947 Harry Truman issues the Truman Doctrine Truman promise economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism over the next three years the United States sent over 400 million dollars a Greece and Turkey keeping them Democratic the Truman Doctrine will dictate American foreign policy for the next 60 years and even today the Truman Doctrine was successful strategy what was needed to be done the United States wanted to keep communism from spreading West about Europe however the US also wanted to avoid World War 3 with the Soviet Union and was looking for alternatives pleads to the Marshall Plan in 1947 devastated by World War II poverty and hunger plague Western Europe with Agriculture and Industry in Ruins because of the war poor Nations throughout Europe were more susceptible to communism because of the promise of equality that it gave them when times get desperate people tend to clean the radical ideas like communism prevent these poor Nations to turn into communism Secretary of State George Marshall proposes the Marshall Plan in 1947 his plan would provide economic aid and supplies European nations who needed however openly pledged to resist communist the plan was successful helping to rebuild Western Europe after the war Western European economies got back on their feet quicker and it boosting us prestige in Europe because United States was seen as a helping neighbor it also diminish the appeal of Communism too many Europe because of this for generations to come many European voters would vote in favor of democracy and against communism in area in which the Cold War almost got hot was in Berlin who was known as the Berlin Airlift in June of 1948 stalling closed all ground access into the Democratic West Berlin as Berlin lies entirely in the Soviet zone Ariel to shut down all roadways and Railways Stalin was furious at the idea of a Western Government and economy sitting in the Communist East Germany Stalin hope to start playing into submission using the coding at population vittles the United States and England broke the Soviet blockade with the Berlin airlift this is a campaign where to 77000 flights dropped 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin by air United States wanted to do whatever they could to supply the west and prove that democracy would last with the Soviet Union intentionally harming the citizens of West Berlin there's a public relations Nightmare and eventually the Soviets lifted the blockade proving a victory for the West after the Berlin Airlift why does dates and her allies were concerned about a potential war with the Soviet Union as Stalin became more bold and more daring in 1949 to protect against future Soviet aggression the West for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also known as NATO and is much this defensive Alliance would pledge military support and Collective defense in case of a Soviet attack if the Soviet Union or her satellite nations were to attacked any Western member of all member nations of NATO would play its military support against the attack the West hope that the prospect of fighting so many member nations at once would deter stalling from any future I would help to prevent a future world war between the two superpowers so why does this matter the United States still uses the ideas of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan in order to Aid countries avoiding oppressive governments the idea is the more democratic successful and capitalist nations are all around the world the better the world economy will be with open markets and free trade the world United States is Connie Mufflers as well United States also begins to see itself as a world police force the idea is governments or treating people poorly United States Post didn't help them United States is put this to the test many times and there are many examples that can be cited one of the biggest examples of this is it the US intervention in Kuwait in the early 1990s country of Iraq led by Saddam Hussein invaded the small oil-rich nation of Kuwait Saddam Hussein's goal was to get the oil from Kuwait and bring the props to Iraq President George Herbert Walker Bush committed US forces to stop the Iraq invasion and what is famously known as Operation Desert Storm the United States quickly defeated the Iraqi Army and put an end to Saddam Hussein's advances on

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