Both the United States and United Kingdom decided to settle on an agreement with Stalin. In exchange for the uninterruption of the Soviet Army in Eastern Europe, Stalin agreed to host free elections. The agreement did not go according to plan. Stalin
This was the start of Stalin not trusting the United States and Great Britain. It is not clear why the United States and Great Britain didn’t launch their attack, but possibly they didn’t want to show weakness to the Soviet Union. The Yalta (now the Ukraine) was the second conference that took place in February 1945 between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin. They came out of the conference with the Yalta declaration that declared to destroy Germany Nazism and an agreement to never disturb the peace in the world
To what extent did events in the final year of the Second World War turn wartime allies into Cold War enemies? I against my brother, I and my brother against our cousin, I, my brother and our cousin against our neighbour, all of us against the foreigner. This Bedouin proverb strikingly summarizes the transition from wartime allies to enemies in 1945: it is the compulsion to fight the enemy that glues together even the most unlikely of allies. The reason why the USA and UK fought alongside the USSR during the Second World War was their common will to defeat Nazi Germany. This was also the motivation behind Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill’s cooperation during the Yalta conference of February 1945, as the war against Germany, although in its final stages, was still raging.
In President Truman’s address to Congress in 1947, the Truman Doctrine, he talks about how the Greek and Turkey countries economies are failing and need aid from the United States to obtain economic stability. In the Truman Doctrine, Truman asks Congress for $400 million to send to aid Greece and Turkey. Truman considered this necessary because the weak governments could be overthrown, possibly by communism. The Doctrine was primarily directed against communism, which Truman feared would spread if either country were overthrown. Truman was smart to take the precaution of preventing communist spread.
A four-power provisional government was called the Allied Control Council. This government was built to rebuild and control Berlin. The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War, it occurred when the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway and road access to the
The Blockade was an attempt to prevent the Allies unifying the western parts of Germany. In addition Russia also wanted to rid West Berlin of the democratic viewed Allies. When the Soviet Union announced the Berlin Blockade on June 24 1948, the West was forced to make a decision about how to deal with it. Giving in to Russian demands was rejected as an option, and some consideration was given to an invasion. America eventually decided that the Berlin Airlift was the best option.
Truman started at the bottom in terms of what strategy to take in this war. As mentioned in his speech, The Truman Doctrine, his plan of economic aid was to financially support Greece and Turkey to help them stop communism from expanding to other areas (Truman). Through his efforts in military aid, we became allies with Greece by helping them with their military (Truman). Truman created the United Nations to protect us from communism so communists had a bigger force to get through and keep communism out of the US as part of his military use.(Truman). These ideas are just the start of how the United States would deal with the Soviet Union and
* Harry Truman – the president next to the Roosevelt. * Cold war- a war between US and the Soviet Union due to the failures of the UN. * Truman Doctrine – Truman’s doctrine to aiding countries to fight communist takeover suck as Greece and Turkey. * NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization. * 38th parallel – A board between communist North Korea and non- communist South Korea.
In response to the Berlin Blockade, the U.S. carried out a massive effort to supply the two million Berlin citizens with food, fuel and other goods by air force over 6 months. The airlift forced Soviets to end blockade in 1949. China then plunged into a full scale Civil War that was beyond control of the U.S government. Mao and Stalin signed a Sino-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance that placed China in the Russian orbit. The American response to the communist triumph states that the department refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new regime in Beijing and the U.S focused on Japan as its main Ally in Asia.
On 25th June 1950, ninety thousand North Korean soldiers invaded South Koreas border defences, The Korean war had begun. This small scale civil war would escalate into an international conflict. Historically, Korea had once been a united country, under Japanese rule for between 1905 and 1945 however, the Japanese were unruly and did not treat the Koreans well. At the end of the Second World War it was decided that the country would be divided along the 38th parallel and occupied by soviet troops in the North and American troops in the South. Syngman Rhee, who had spent some years exiled in America, became the president of South Korea in 1948, while Kim Il Sung, having fought for the Russian red army during the war became leader of the People’s Democratic Republic (Communist) in North Korea.