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Mind Map by graciemay1403, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by graciemay1403
about 9 years ago
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Cold War
- Background
- Russia became worlds first communist country in 1917
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were leaders of revolution
- Communism
- Equality
- every aspect of life and
business was controlled by
state
- Equality
- Capitalism
- freedom
- democracy in politics (voting) and free market in business
- freedom
- Russia became worlds first communist country in 1917
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were leaders of revolution
- Second World War
- Soviets suffered horrifically, over 20 million dead
- USA and Britain insisted on attacking
Germany through Italy and later, France
- Stalin - dictator of Soviet Union
- Soviets suffered horrifically, over 20 million dead
- Potsdam Conference (1945)
- Churchill, Stalin and Truman met at Potsdam
- Attlee - new prime minister - replaced Churchill
- Germany defeated - Big Three no
longer united by common enemy
- set up Council of Foreign Ministers -
organise re-building of Europe
- reduce size of Germany
- ban Nazi army - prosecute remaining Nazis
- divide Germany into 4 zones -
USSR, Britain, France, USA
- Divide Berlin into 4
- Churchill, Stalin and Truman met at Potsdam
- Atomic Bomb
- Truman believed America possessed ultimate weapon
in atomic bomb - 'master card' in Potsdam discussions
- gave America power to destroy entire enemy
cities without risking a single American life
- Soviet scientists
instructed to develop
their own - Stalin's
plan, create 'buffer
zone' between USSR
and capitalist West
- Truman believed America possessed ultimate weapon
in atomic bomb - 'master card' in Potsdam discussions
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