Great Patriotic War

• War is ended by Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Stalin was uninformed that this was happening even as allies

  • Paranoia emerges - his allies have hidden from him and ideological differences
  • Soviets interfere with Eastern European election - salami tactics
  • 1949 - buffer zone emerges + Churchill called it iron curtain
  • US see Nazi ideology beng replaced from nazi to communism so Cold War emerges
  • Germany becomes east and West - Berlin does too - loads of coMamu it’s going yo West Berlin to escape - built a wall to stop this
  • highlights communism failure