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Why do the Soviets and U.S. govt. not trust one another post WWII? |
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- Soviets refused to assist US in pacific theater
- US refused to enter eastern front |
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Yalta Conference (what was discussed?) |
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- Feb. 1945
- Stalin to join pacific theater & support UN
-Divide germany into zones, collect war payments
- France, US, Britain, Soviet Union |
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United Nations & Security Council |
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- 50 nations meet in san fran
- security council: UK, US, France, Soviet Union, China
-general assembly - everybody else |
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Meeting at Potsdam (who are the new guys?) |
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-potsdam = suburb of germany
- truman had "bomb" in his back pocket
- finalized division on germany
- soviet vs. us |
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| a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
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| An economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production. Capitalism encourages private investment and business, compared to a government-controlled economy. Investors in these private companies (i.e. shareholders) also own the firms and are known as capitalists. |
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- US will contain the communist threat by building alliances with threatened nations
- cannot eliminate communism, but can stop its spread |
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| if one falls, they all fall |
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| - 400 million to turkey and greece - support of all free peoples |
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- sec. of state george marshall
- 17 billion to rebuild europe over 5 years
- nations had to agree to buy american goods |
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Berlin (how was it split) |
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