Yalta Conference

confirmed during the later wartime conferences. In 1945, the famed meeting of the heads of government of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held to discuss the reestablishment of the nations of a war-torn Europe. The Yalta Conference, held near Yalta in the Crimea, was the second of three wartime conferences held among the Big Three. The Yalta conferees, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, confirmed the policy adopted at the Casablanca Conference of demanding Germany's unconditional

The United States and the Beginning of the Cold War a) There were three cracks evident between the US-Soviet relationship. America and Russia argued about the opening of a second front against Germany. Stalin’s plans where that America and Britain invade western Europe so the Russian Red Army gets stronger and pressure on them is relieved. Roosevelt promised a second front by the time of 1942, but the delay of plans for an Anglo-American invasion of German-occupied

It had the benefit of speed. Since the Casablanca conference, achieving Japanese surrender as early as possible following the capitulation of Germany had been the strategic objective in the Pacific. However, on May 25th, 1945 Truman had stated a new objective of economizing American lives to the greatest

Introduction: Cold war was the phase of hostile rivalry between the USSR and Americans. This term is used to describe the relationship between America and Soviet Union after the World War 2 or in the period from 1945 to 1980. Cold War got its name as both sides were afraid of fighting each other, as both possessed nuclear weapons, by the 1950s, there was the fear of complete destruction of the two countries. So they fought indirectly by threatening and denouncing each other using

for Germany’s territory. Leaders from the allied powers United States, France, and United Kingdom; and the Soviet Union, the four powers divided Germany into four occupation zones for equality purposes. This division was approved at the Potsdam Conference in 1944 the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union had agreed on the zones. The Allied Powers occupied west Germany, while the Soviet Union ruled east Germany. Also, the capital of Germany, Berlin lied in the center of east Germany so they

The term ‘Cold War’ had been used to describe periods of extreme tensions between states, which never culminate to actual, direct warfare. However, for the purpose of this essay, we will define the Cold War as being the period of hostility that existed between two blocs shortly after World War II and divided the world into two parts: the Soviet bloc and the Western bloc. More than just a conflict, the Cold War was, as the historian John Mason pointed out, ‘a fundamental clash of ideologies and interests’

was a very important factor in the development of the Cold War. Churchill, Britain and Roosevelt, USA wanted Poland to be democratic whereas Stalin wanted to make sure that Poland's new government was friendly towards the USSR. The Yalta Agreement had tried to

WHY AND HOW THE COLD WAR WAS FOUGHT AND ITS EFFECTS Name: Chidera Ogbonna Course Title: History 1380 Instructor Name: Joy M.Chadya Date: April 6, 2015 The Cold War was the persistent tension that existed between the United Sates and some of its Western supporters and the Soviet Union together with other Communists countries. This tension was witnessed between the time the Second World War was coming to an end and the Soviet Union dissolution in

The Cold War was a period of economic, political and military tension between the United States of America (USA) and the Soviet Union (USSR) from the 1940s to the late 80s after World War II . It was called the Cold War because there was no large- scale fighting directly between the two nations, which was probably due to the differences in ideologies between USA and USSR, the distrust between two countries, and actions in the Soviet zone of Germany had significant impacts on these two countries.

The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of world war 2 in 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states