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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Confrontation or competition between the US and the USSR from 1946 to 1990 | Cold War |
| Protection from Germany, control territory between Germany and the USSR, believed communism is superior to capitalism, believed capitalists out to destroy communism, communism is superior to capitalism, capitalists out to destroy communism | Soviet Goals |
| Economy most important, economic growth promotes world peace, promotes democracy, individual rights and free enterprise will create prosperity | US Goals |
| FDR, Churchill, Stalin meet Feb. 1945 to plan for postwar world | Yalta |
| Polish government created by USSR is recognized if it includes members of old government and holds free elections, Germany and Berlin to be divided into four zones of occupation (US, GB, FR, USSR), Germany to pay reparations, USSR declare war on Japan | Yalta Agreements |
| People have the right to choose their form of government | Declaration of A Liberated Europe |
| Germany divided into four zones of occupation, Berlin to be divided as well | Postwar Germany |
| New president after FDR dies | Harry S. Truman |
| Truman, Stalin, Churchill/Atlee meet July 1945, Truman informs Stalin we have successfully tested the atomic bomb, Stalin considers this a threat | Potsdam |
| Soviets to take reparations from their zone of occupation, Soviets get small amount of industrial equipment from other zones | Reparations |
| Declaration of Liberated Europe is broken when Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia remain occupied by Soviet army | satellite nations |
| What Churchill claimed separated communist Eastern Europe from the West | Iron Curtain |