Origins of the Cold War

1. The Cold War
BY MARC AND REECE

2. Content
 Cold War
 TYP
 Land
 Winston Churchill
 NATO
 GDR
 GFR
 Warsaw

3. The cold war
 The cold war was a war between Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism
 It was a war with no actual fighting, just competiveness and threats (Grrr)

4. Tehran
 Before the cold War there were conferences held
 Tehran, In Iran, 1943
 Strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston
Churchill.

5. Yalta
 Yalta, Black Sea, February 1945
 The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations
of war-torn Europe.
 Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan.
 Stalin agreed to collaborate with the establishment of the United Nations
Organisation.
 Churchill got Stalin to agree that France should have a zone of occupation in the
defeated Germany

6. Potsdam august 1945
 Location: Potsdam, Germany
Players: US President Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Clement
Attlee (who became UK Prime Minister on 26 July), Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin.
Outcome: The terms of Japan's surrender were agreed; the Council
of Foreign Ministers tasked with drawing up peace treaties; Poland's
frontiers discussed; Germany's disarmament and reparations
confirmed; and the decision made to hold war trials.

7. Land
 Poland, Czechlovakia and Yugoslavia wanted pieces of land in West Germany
 At Yalta They agreed to split Berlin into 4 zones.
 France, America, Brittan, Russia
 There was also a annexed Zone which Poland and others occupied

8. Churchill(iron speech)
 Nine months after Sir Winston Churchill failed to be re-elected as Britain's Prime
Minister. On March 5, 1946, at the request of Westminster College in the small
Missouri town of Fulton, US, Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain"
speech to a crowd of 40,000. In addition to accepting an honorary degree from
the college, Churchill made one of his most famous post-war speeches. This was
the reason why he was in the US
 In this speech, Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the
United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an
iron curtain has descended across the Continent”

9. NATO
 A meeting in June 1950
 It helped the allies realise that the communist countries were rising in
the East
 They created military plans in 1951
 It was a long term defence plan

10. GFR
 It was formed in 1949
 It was a much more liberal society than the GDR.
 Many people flooded into Western Germany as it was socially and
economically more stable than East Germany
 West Germany won 1954 FIFA world Cup
 They only united the Germany in football 2 years after the Berlin wall
came down (1991)

11. GDR
 Established 1949
 Capital was East berlin
 Had a major Russian influence
 It was cut off from the rest of the world, as a result of its ties with
Russia and Stalin in particular
 Many people living in East Germany left.
 1955 signed Warsaw pact

12. Warsaw Pact treaty 1955
 The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact)
was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955
between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a collective security
alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and
Western European nations in 1949.
 The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in March and July of 1991
following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.