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Deaths
20 million dead and 15 million wounded. -
Germany
suffered from hunger when the food supply from occupied countries ceased. In the US occupation zone, the Office of Military Government for Germany established a goal of 1550 calories per day in 1945, but in the first months of occupation, this goal often could not be met. -
Yalta and Postdam conferences
Poland would shift westward
Germany divided in four occupation zones. -
Superpowers
USA and USSR the two remaining superpowers. -
United Nations
Is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. -
The Truman Doctrine
pledged the United States to assist any democracy attacked by authoritarian forces. It shifted U.S. foreign policy from isolationist to the global policeman. The Marshall Plan pledged $12 billion in food, machinery, and foreign direct investment to rebuild Europe. -
Cold War
was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. The period is generally considered to span the 1947 Truman Doctrine to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $12 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Growing tensions
Permanent division of Germany.
Soviet control. -
COMECON
Comecon was meant to prevent countries in the Soviet sphere of influence from moving towards that of the Americans and South-East Asia. Comecon was the Eastern Bloc's response to the formation in Western Europe of the Marshall Plan and the OEEC, which later became the OECD. -
Communist State
Nationalist movements