Causes of the Cold War
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- Post war plans during World War 2
- Soviet Union: We support a communist- dominated government
- United States: We support a anti-communist government with freedom
- February 1945 president Roosevelt, Churchill , and Stalin had a conference in soviet city of Yalta for Yalta conference. The conferences was for the plans after the war which led to a disagreement between the US and Soviet union because of their different beliefs on how the government should be ran which was the start of the cold war.
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- We must prevent the spread of communism by any means possible!
- In march 1947 President Truman introduced the Federal Employees Loyalty and security Program. This order was the establishment of the Loyalty review board whose job it was to look into government workers and fire those who were disloyal Although “disloyalty” was never clearly defined, between 1947 and 1951, government loyalty boards investigated over 3 million employees, dismissing 212 of them as security risks. Individuals under investigation were not allowed to see the evidence against them or even to know who had accused them of being disloyal.
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- I have a plan that will hopefully force them to give up any plans for west Germany and or Berlin.
- In 1948 Berlin was under a blockade by Soviet union that prevented any shipments from allied occupation zones into the city. This was looked at as a threat causing a shortage of food other needs in west berlin. Soviets thought this would cause Allies to stop their plans for west Germany
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- NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- US, Canada, Western European: 1 for all we stand together
- In 1949 many nations joined NATO and agreed on the being as one. An attack on one nation means an attack on all of them.As part of their collective security strategy, the countries agreed to provide military support to one another and established a standing army to protect Western Europe from Soviet invasion.
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