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The Yalta Conference
Before this started, it had been decided that Germany would be divided into occupied zones administrated by U.S, British, French, and Soviet forces. The United nations organization charter had already been drafted, and the conferees worked out a compromise formula for voting in the Security Council. The Soviets withdrew their claim that all 16 Soviets republics should have membership in the General Assembly. After the agreements reached at Yalta were made public, they were harshly criticized. -
The Creation of United Nations
The United Nations was signed on June 26, 1945 and was now effective and ready to be enforced. The United Nations meaning was to have better arbitrating international conflict and to negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. When the war was over, negotiating and maintaining the peace was practical responsibility of the new U.N Security Council, made up of the U.S, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China. Each would have veto power over the other. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman asked for assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Its administration believed that both nations were threatened by communism and a tough chance against the Soviet Union. Whether U.S. assistance would result in democracy in Greece or Turkey was unclear, both nations established repressive right-wing regimes in the years of following the Truman Doctrine. It set the guidelines for over 40 years of U.S. Soviet relations -
The End Of WW2
The US and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers but their relationship between one another was tense. By the time WW2 had ended, most American official agreed that the best defense against the soviet threat was a strategy that they used called containment. By 1991, the Soviet Union itself had fallen apart and the Cold War was over