Cold War BeginningsBy; Shaikha al Neaimi , Mariam al Zaabi

Grade; 9a

What’s Cold War ?

• The cold war was continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict between military tension and economic competition between the communist world.

How were Russia and America different by the end of world

war two?

• Truman wanted peace and prosperity.• Stalin wanted to dominate Europe.• Hitler commits suicide, as Russian

troops approach Berlin.

How did President Truman respond to Soviet domination

of Eastern Europe?

• Stalin told Truman, when asked to withdraw from Eastern Europe, that Russian troops were staying as a buffer zone.

• The Iron Curtain refers to physical and ideological boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from 1995 to 1997.

• Truman’s Doctrine was the US support to aid nations that were being threatened by outside influence, and promised to help struggling nations against communism.

• The Containment pact was that America shall not go to war with countries that were already communists, but to support those against communism.

Causes and results of Stalin’s blockade of Berlin.

• The city of Berlin was located in East Germany. The US needed the USSR's permission to bring all supplies through East Berlin using roads and railroads. The USSR cut off US access to their controlled roads and railroads leading to West Berlin by making the Berlin Blockade.

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