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Regin of stain
The soviets were destroyed but it was To create a new industrial base,
Stalin returned to the method that he had used in the 1930s. Soviet workers were
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Beginning of Cold War
The division between Western Europe and Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe marked the beginning of the Cold War. The Soviet government was not prepared to
give up its control of Eastern Europe after Germany’s
defeat nor American leaders were not willing to give up
the power. Also from all the United States had gained
throughout the world. Which made each other suspicious of
motives, the United States and the Soviet Union
became rivals. -
Maddness in Europe
Eastern Europe had disagreed on weather or not they should determine their own government. But, the United States and Great Britain
believed that they should freely determine their own governments.
But, since the Eastern Europe fearful that their
would be anti-Soviet if they were permitted free elections,
opposed the West’s plans. -
Harry S Truman
President Truman had got alarmed from seeing the British withdrawl. He thought it might expand of the Soviet Union going to Mediterran Area. So he got on the move and told that they would send help and money to kick out the communist. -
Eastern Europe
The timetable of
the Soviet takeover varied from country to country.
Between 1945 and 1947, Soviet-controlled Communist
governments became firmly entrenched in East
Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and Hungary.
In Czechoslovakia, where there was a strong tradition
of democracy and a multi-party system, the
Soviets did not seize control of the government until
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The divison of Germany
The germans were in the middle of soviet and the USA. After WWII german had been divided with Soviet Untion. United states, Great britian and France. But their had been Berlin which no one owned so the soviet union took over. -
Cold War Spread
The chinese government had contol china. WHich USA was scared that communism will spread. Also the Sovier Union which bomber their first atomic bomb and started the arms race. -
NATO
Just when the cold war began, the treaty of NATO started to find new secruity for alliances. -
The arms race
In 1949 the soviet union had bombed their first atomic bomb. Later the USA made dealy hydro bombs which started the race in the 1950s. -
The Marshall Plan
It was a plan in which it would designed to rebuild the prosperity
and stability of war-torn Europe. They had 13 billion to aid Europes economy. Although communist were very good with countries that had bad economic. It wasnt meant to harm them but they seen it as a support for the USA. -
The wall in Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev which became a new leader of western germany wanted to contol the american missiles which failed. Later the eastern germans were getting tired of communist and would go to western which later bulit a wall to seperate them. -
The Khrushchev
A group of leaders succeeded Stalin, but the new
general secretary of the Communist Party, Nikita
Khrushchev, soon emerged as the chief Soviet policy
maker. Once in power, Khrushchev took steps to
undo some of the worst features of Stalin’s regime.
At the Twentieth Congress of the Communist
Party in 1956, Khrushchev condemned Stalin for his
administrative violence, mass repression, and terror. -
Cuban missile
Their was a revolutionary named Fidel Castro overthrew
the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and supported the soviet union. Which started wanted to invade but it became a disater. -
Againist Communism
Communism did
not develop deep roots among the peoples of Eastern
Europe. Moreover, the Soviets exploited Eastern
Europe economically for their own benefit and made
living conditions harsh for most people -
Vietniam
While the cold war the usa had involved in other things under President Lyndon B. Johnson, increasing
numbers of U.S. troops were sent to Vietnam. Their
purpose was to keep the Communist regime of North
Vietnam from gaining control of South Vietnam.
