7. Yalta Conference
• Post War issues
• Germany – denazification,
demilitarization, war
criminals
• U.S. – wants Russia to help
in Pacific
• USSR – wants sphere of
influence in E. Europe
– Poland
• U.K. wants free elections in
East Europe
– Poland
Feb 4-11 1945
• U.S. Sells out?
8. A new Atomic Age
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
9. Potsdam Conference
*Division of Germany into occupation zones
*Changing Germany’s borders
*Removing German Threat to Russia
*Dismantling of German Military-Industrial Complex
*Churchill, Truman, Kai-Sheik agree how to end war in Pacific
10. A United Nations?
• Idea originating with
FDR and Churchill
• 1945 – founded SF
• Later based in NY
• Security council
– 10 nation council with 5
permanent members
– Allies in WWII
– USSR, UK, France,
China, USA
– Veto power
12. Berlin Airlift
Soviets blockade
Western Berlin from
June of 1948-May of
1949
Britain and US respond
by airlifting supplies in
13k tons per day
Push back against the
“Eastern Bloc”
15. Containment
From 1946 on, the U.S. engages in a policy of “Containment” of the spread
of communism, funding anti-Communist troops in Greece and Turkey, as well as
the development of NATO.
18. Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in late 1961, closing an emigration loophole
between East and West Germany. In the West it symbolized the Iron
Curtain, in the Eastern Bloc it was seen as a protective barrier from the
vices of capitalism
