Chapter 26 Section 1

The U.S. and the U.S.S.R were allies but

• Different political systems (see the next two slides).

• Stalin signed the Non-Aggression pact with Hitler. {What does that even mean?}

• The Allies waited to invade Europe. {Stalin was mad!!}

• The Atomic Bomb {No one told the Russians}

The Potsdam Conference

USSR Occupied Eastern Europe.

• Stalin refused to allow elections in Poland.

• USSR kept troops in liberated countries of eastern Europe.

• Created “satellite nations”

• Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland.

• The Iron Curtain

Communism- The Soviet Union

• The state controls all property.• The state controls the

economy.• A totalitarian government- 1

political party• They were angry at the US

– We refused to recognize them.– Long delay in creating a 2nd front– The Atomic Bomb

Democracy/Capitalism- USA

• Private Property

• Capitalism/ The Market System

• Democracy- many political parties

• Angry about the Non Aggression Pact

CONTAINMENT

• The American Policy of stopping the spread of communism.

• The Truman Doctrine- America would support countries resisting communist takeovers. (Turkey, Greece, Central America)

• The Marshall Plan- Gave 12.5 Billion to countries in European countries to rebuild. It created stability.

Germany

• After the war Germany was divided into 2 parts. East (communist) and West (democratic).

• Berlin was also divided.

The Berlin Airlift ( The Back Story)

• After WWII, Berlin was divided into 4 zones. And supervised by France, England, the USSR and the US. So was Berlin.

• France, England and the US wanted to reunify Germany. The USSR did not.

• The USSR cut off West Berlin from the rest of Germany. Why?

• The allies used planes to supply the city for 327 days. Eventually the Soviets relented.

New Alliances

• NATO

• An alliance including the US and other democratic nations.

• The Warsaw Pact

• Alliance of USSR and their satellite nations. (Communist)