Cold War Part 2 Guided Notes

Looking at the picture above, what can be inferred from it

about this meeting?Churchill (left) with Roosevelt (USA,

middle) and Stalin (USSR, right) at the Yalta summit

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The Yalta ConferenceThe Yalta Conference in 1945 is believed to be a cause for the Cold War.

The leaders of the "_________________" of the U.S., U.K., and Soviet Union were unable to agree on post- war borders, occupations of Germany and Japan, and what to do with Poland.

This _______________________ led to mixed reactions and feelings between the leaders, which may have _________________ the ____________________between them.

The Yalta ConferenceThe initial reaction of the conference was _____________.

____________________ and _________________ felt that __________________ would remain _____________ the __________________ and the ______________________ during the ______________.

This was _____________ lived.Following the death of FDR on April 12,

1945, Harry S. Truman took over.

The new _______________ ______________ with the _____________ over its interest in Eastern Europe and the UN.

Americans now criticized FDR's handling of Yalta.

The Potsdam Conference-The conference ________________ to settle most of the important issues at hand

-Set the stage for the ____________________ shortly after World War II came to an end.

- The meeting at Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations.

The Potsdam ConferenceAt Potsdam, Truman and Churchill haggled at length with Stalin over the details of what mattered most:The _______________________________________.

The Western leaders had come to believe that the best protection against a revival of German aggression lay in _________________ the German people to a __________________ place in the _________________and ________________life of Europe—after a long period of reform and re- education.

_______________, for his part, ________________________ into a number of loosely connected states, without of industrial, as well as military, capabilities.

He seemed inclined to _________________________ of ____________________by saddling draconian reparation payments ($20 billion) on the backs of a prostrate German people

The Potsdam ConferenceThe atmosphere was much ______________________ than at Yalta.

-A few weeks before the surrender of the Reich, the ______________ had quickly _____________ the ________________ part of _______________ part of Austria and all of Central Europe.

-Stalin, aware of this territorial advantage, took the opportunity________ __________ ______ in the countries liberated by the Soviets

Truman DoctrinePresident Harry Truman put into effect that the United States would _____________ any ____________who was ________________ or under siege from a communist nation.

• The support could be ____________, ____________, and/or _________________.

• Out of the Truman Doctrine came the ________________________________ which reorganized the military and foreign policy of the United States.

• The ____________________________was also formed out of the National Security Act.

The Truman Doctrine paved the way for _____________________________________

The Marshall Plan• _______________________ was in ____________.• Most of its factories had been bombed

or looted.• Millions of people were living in refugee

camps while European governments tried to figure out where to resettle them

• The ___________________ of __________________________ was the bitterest in several centuries. The weather severely damaged crops and froze rivers, cutting off water transportation and causing a fuel shortage.

In June

The Marshall Plan 1947 Secretary of State George Marshall proposed:

• ___________________________ provide ____________ to all European nations that needed it.

“not against any country or doctrine butagainst hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”• Revived European hopes. Over the

next four years, _____________________ receivedsome _________________________________ in aid.

• Even ___________________ assistance to the _________________________ and its allies.

_________________, however, ___________ to

accept any assistance from

the United States