cold war - Potsdam, Marshall plan &Truman doctrine

• Potsdam Conference


  July - August 1945
• Potsdam Conference attendees


  Stalin, Truman & Attlee
• Potsdam Conference agreements


  1. Berlin would be split into 4

  2. Germany would pay 20 million

  3. Germany demilitarised
• Stalin was angry


  Because of the atomic bomb drop by USA
• Marshall Plan (USA)


  December 1947
• Marshall Plan


  • Give financial help to countries to help rebuild their economy
  • 13 billion given for food & machinery
• Marshall Plan


  Done so countries wouldn't go communist
• Truman Doctrine (USA)


  March 1947
• Truman Doctrine


  • Foreign policy changed from Isolation to containment to prevent the spread of communism
  • USA would provide money and support to Greece and Turkey
• Isolation


  A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other countries
• Containment


  Doing anything to stop the spread of communism
• Greek civil war


  1946-1950