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Roots of the Cold War Notes 1-18

 <- This is a graph which shows each country’s payments during the Marshall Plan. Marshall 's offer was quickly taken lip by the British and French foreign ministers, who issued a joint communiqué inviting twenty-two nations and representatives from occupied Germany to it conference in Paris that would begin the work of drawing up a cooperative plan. You can see UK had the largest Marshall Plan Payments of all the countries. ->This is a historic picture of Nazi –Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Stalin agreed to the Nazi - Soviet Pact because he needed more time to prepare for war. In this Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact, Stalin distrusted Germany, but he distrusted UK and France more. -> This is a Map that I drew to show the division of Germany. After the WWII, Germany was divided into four occupation zones. The US, Britain, France, and the USSR each had control of a zone.

=__**Notes**__= -Stalin very strong in mind and strength, but Roosevelt very ill and couldn't resist demands.

-The relationship between the U.S and Russia did not go very well since the start.

-On November 17th Roosevelt invited Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinov to Washington.

-Formal diplomatic relations was created between the two countries.

-When U.S forces entered France to fight the Central Power, Russia had surrendered and it seemed as if Russia abandoned the Allied forces.

-U.S was capitalist, while the Bolsheviks were communist.

-On March 1933, Franklin Roosevelt realized the policy of non-recognition was void and that it made no sense.

-The economic and political situation in Western Europe was becoming dire.

-Nearly six years of pervasive Allied bombing had.curned of the large cities into seas of rubble while destroying much of Europe's economic infrastructure.

-The effect that (his economic turmoil was having on the political situation in everyone, not just the Soviets, could see Europe.

-He began by instructing Kennan, who had recently been appointed the Department's new director of policy planning.

-To investigate the economic situation in Europe and determine what ass instance the US might be able to provide.

-Marshall 's offer was quickly taken lip by the British and French foreign ministers, who issued a joint communiqué inviting twenty-two nations and representatives from occupied Germany to it conference in Paris that would begin the work of drawing up a cooperative plan.

-Along with the Truman Doctrine, it signaled America's elnbrace of its new role as a global leader.

-In mid-June, the US and British authorities took an even more significant step in the creation of an independent state in western Germany.

-Within the introduction of a new sound currency, however, shopkeepers began accepting cash again, and merchandise that had previously been sold only illegally returned to fill empty store shelves.

-His opponent ill that campaign was Helen Gahagan Douglas. a Democratic congresswoman whom Nixon dubbed the Pink Lady in order to call at tension to her alleged "softness" on Communism.

-Truman requested that the NSC conduct a comprehensive review of US national security strategy in light of such recent developments as the Soviet bomb and the Communist takeover of China.

=__**Summary**__= -In the Roots of the Cold War, there are many reasons that led to the Cold War. The Kennan's theory was about militarization, which was totally unnecessary, and it also influenced the decisions of the US government.Most important facts in the Roots of the Cold War was the period of McCarthyism, and the Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact. At last, USA allies with the Western Europe and USSR joins with the East.

=**__Questions__**= 1. What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact? 2. When was the period of McCarthyism? 3. What was the Kennan theory? 4. Who were the big three? 5. Who created NATO, and what did it cause?

=**__ Citation/Bibliography __**= "Marshall Plan Payments." // Pbs.org //. Web. <[]>.

"Nazi –Soviet Non-Aggression Pact." //Vho.org//. Web. <[]>.