Causes of the Cold War: Grand Alliance and conferences

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Grand alliance

an alliance created to defeat the Nazis in '41.

between '43 and '45 the leaders of the Grand Alliance met at 3 different conferences

Teheran

Yalta

Potsdam

At the Yalta Conference (February 1945)

Winston Churchill :Prime Minister of Britain.

Josef Stalin :Dictator of the USSR.

Franklin D. Roosevelt :President of the U.S

At the Potsdam Conference (July, 1945)

Churchill, Stalin and Truman

Teheran conference ('43)

-held in the Soviet Embassy

- 28 November to 1 December

-USSR would declare war on Japan once Germany was defeated

-Poland should be given more land from Germany but lose some to Russia

Yalta Conference ('45)

-4_11 February

- when Germany is defeated, it will be reduced in size, demilitarized and would pay reparations

-how Germany would be divided after the war

-Nazi Party to be banned

-Nazi war criminals tried in front of international court

-UN would be set up to replace the League of nations.

it would meet for the first time on 25/04/45

-USSR would declare war japan 3 months after Germany defeat

-There was an outline of how lands held by japan would be divided after the war

Potsdam conference (18 July 1945)

-held at Cecilienhof

-Division of Germany and Austria respectively into four occupation zones

-agreed to prosecute Nazi war

criminals

Truman Doctrine ('47)

-Truman believed the USSR had a second strategy that would get them to conquer more land without declaring war

-Stalin would encourage revolution across Europe

-citizens in countries like Italy, France, turkey and UK were suffering great hardships after WW2

-when the countries were in this sate, communism looked highly appealing

-communist believed that the wealth of the rich people should be shared among the poor

-the world had a choice between communist tyranny and democratic freedom

-america had a responsibility to fight for liberty wherever it was threatened

-america would send troops and economic resources to governments that were threatened by communists

-communists should not be allowed to grow and gain territory

-america had the responsibility to protect the world, not the UN

The Marshall Plan

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