history cold war

• Tensions developed between the USA and the USSR


  1946-1949
• Tensions between the USA and USSR after World War Two

  • Difference in ideologies - USA was capitalist, USSR was communist
  • Disagreements on how to lead Eastern Europe and Germany
• Soviet Union's goal


  Control Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone to protect the USSR from attacks
• By 1946, there were Communist governments in most of Eastern European countries, called Satellite States
• Truman Doctrine


  Gave political, economic and military aid to prevent other countries turning to Communism, known as a policy of containment
• Truman Doctrine

  Increased tensions because it showed the USA's willingness to prevent the spread of Communism and made Stalin suspicious
• The Berlin Blockade occurred in 1943