Monday: I was gone.
Tuesday: I was gone.
Wednesday: We discussed the cold war
Thursday: We talked about Flint, Michigan. Also, we worked on our presentation.
Causes of the Cold War
- different political systems
- US bades on democracy, capitalism, and freedom
- USSR is based on dictatorship, communism and control
- The Red scare-1919
- Both thought their system was better and distrusted the others intentions
- Stalin despised capitalism
- Distrusted during WW11
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta Conference
- American fear of a communist attack and USSR's fear of a US attack
- USSR's fear of atomic bomb
- USSR's actions in their German zone
- USSR's goal to spread communism around the world
Yalta Conference- February 1945
- Before the end of WW2, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met at Yalta to plan what should happen when war ended
- The establishment of United Nations
- Germany to be divided into four zones
- Free elections allowed in states of eastern Europe
- USSR would join war to fight Japan
- The "West"
- democratic
- The "East"
- communist
Post WW2/ Cold War goals for US
- wanted to promote open markets for Us goods to prevent another depression
- promote democracy throughout the world, especially in Asia and Africa
- Stop the spread of communism
- policy of containment
Post WW2/Cold war goals for USSR
- wanted to create greater security for itself
- lost ten of millions of people in WW2 and Stalin's purges
- feared a strong Germany
- establish defensible borders
- Encourage friendly gov't on its borders
- spread communism around the world
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