WWII Contribute to Cold War - created from Mind Map

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V. Important! Major impotance

Two superpowers emerged

Germany

Japan

Events from the war soured relations

Deepening Stalin's suspicions--> his actions seriously alarming West

Totaly opposing ideologies

USSR had Red Army, massive, in charge of Eastern Europe, no one wanted to fight after WWII

US did well during war, had full employment

US showed had nuclear capacity at end of war

Background of suspicion during war, and all the way back to Russian Civil War

USSR suffered great losses, 25 million

Stalin felt E. Europe to be his sphere of influence

Churchill and 'Percentages Agreement'

Grown by 90% from 1940-44

Economists worried about overproduction after the war - who would they sell to?

Marshall Plan

there was an enormous power vacuum at centre of Europe coz G 'dead'

Four zones of occupation

Berlin (Soviet zone) also split

Power vacuum there too because of Jap.

Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939

Question of Second Front

US dropped atom bomb, no longer needed USSR

Yalta and Potsdam events

Mistrust from Stalin

Stalin felt Red Army doing most of fighting, waited until 1944

Felt attempt to bleed USSR dry

Hiroshima and Nagasaki described as first attack in Cold War