1. COLD WAR

2. COLD WAR
 After the WWII, the alliance between the USA, the
USSR, Great Britain and France ended.
 At the Yalta Conference, Germany was divided into
four occupied zones controlled by Great Britain,
France, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
 The city of Berlin, though technically part of the
Soviet zone, was also split, with the Soviets taking
the eastern part of the city.

3. BERLIN

5. ORIGINS
Historical
resentment
 The Soviet Union could
not forget that in 1918
Britain and the USA
had tried to destroy the
Russian Revolution.
 Britain and the USA
could not forget that
Stalin had signed the
Nazi-Soviet Pact with
Germany in 1939.

6. CAUSES

7. CAUSES
 The Soviet Union wanted to spread its ideology of communism
worldwide
 The acquisition of atomic weapons by America caused fear in
the Soviets.
 Both countries feared an attack from each other adhering to
mutual mass destruction.
 The Soviet Union's action of taking control over Eastern
Europe was a major factor for US suspicions.

8.  The US President had a personal dislike of the
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
 America was annoyed by the Soviet Union's actions
in the part of Germany it had occupied.
 The Soviets feared that America would use Western
Europe as a base to attack it.

9. NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

10. NUCLEAR ARMS RACE