Cold War Origins
Cold War Origins
• The Soviet Union and Communism
• The United States and Democracy
• Era preceding WWII
• WWII: Marriage of Convenience
• The Atomic Age
Marching to War
• Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland
• Watchful Waiting: U.S. Isolation
• Arsenal of Democracy
• Lend Lease
• Invasion of the USSR
• December 7, 1941
Wartime Diplomacy
• Atlantic Charter
• The Fourteen Points and Four Freedoms
• Declaration of War: Axis and Allies
• Europe First
• Mobilization at Home
African Conferences
• Casablanca and Cairo
• The Big Three
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Second Front
• African Campaigns
• Soft Underbelly Strategy
• Mistrusting your ally
Teheran and Yalta
• Question of Poland
• Second Front
• Postwar Germany
• War in Asia
• Spoils of War
• D-Day Invasion
The U.N. and Potsdam
• San Francisco, Spring 45
• FDR’s Death
• Potsdam: Waning days of the Alliance
• Unconditional Surrender
• The Bomb
• Postwar chessboard
The Cold War
• Europe in the Ashes
• Threat of Communism
• Rebirth via Marshall Plan
• Eastern Europe
• Iron Curtain
Containment
• Turkey and Greece
• Neutrality Abandoned
• Truman Doctrine
• Mr. X
• National Security Doctrine
Berlin Crisis
• A Divided City and Occupation Zones
• DeNazification
• Germany Awakening
• Stalin’s Gamble
• Truman’s Choices
• NATO
