Cold War

• Long telegram 


  Stalin wants to destroy capitalism and he thinks the West want to destroy him
• Novikov telegram


  USA want to use military power to destroy USSR
• Iron Curtain speech 


  Said by Winston Churchill, he said that USSR was a threat to freedom and world peace
• Soviet Satellite states

  Soviet red army freed countries from the Nazis, Stalin didn't want to lose them so he turned them into satellite states
• Truman Doctrine

  Truman said he wants to stop the spread of communism and he will use money and soldiers to do so and capitalism is a better way of life
• Marshall Plan

  George Marshall offered aid to Eastern European countries to develop after WW2
• Stalins opinion on the Marshall Plan

  Stalin didn't allow it
• How much money was funded through the Marshall Plan?

  12.7 billion
• Effects of Marshall Plan


  1. grand alliance was over
  2. Plan made western European countries support USA
  3. Europe was divided economically
  4. USA working against USSR
• Cominform 1947 (USSR)


  Control satellite states and for them not to trade with non-communist countries
• Comecon 1949 (USSR)


  Provide aid to communist countries
• NATO 1949


  A military alliance against the USSR
• What was the Berlin Crisis? 1948


  1. West wanted to rebuild Germanys economy

  2. Stalin wanted to keep Germany weak
• Trizonia

  USA, France and Britain coming together with their zones and took West Germany
• What was the Berlin Blockade? 1948


  Stalin wanted to show the USA that a divided Germany wouldn't work
• Berlin Airlift was the USAs response

  USA flew over supplies to West Berlin, 170,000 tonnes of supplies were delivered
• How long did the Blockade last for?

  Almost a year. It was lifted
• Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) 1949


  USA, Britain, France making a separate country
• German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1949


  Stalins response to the west, known as East Germany
• Warsaw Pact 1955


  A military alliance against the USA
• Arms race 1950-1958


  competition to build nuclear weapons