PPT-Cold War Tensions Grow Soviets Blockade Berlin

Although Germany and Berlin the capital had been divided between the US Soviet Union Britain and France after WWII the divisions were not on complete opposite sides West Berlin controlled by the US Britain and France was situated within East Germany controlled by the Soviet Union . L/O – To identify the causes and effects of the Berlin Blockade 1948-49. Problems with Berlin. Berlin was deep inside the Soviet sector, yet it was. divided . between the four Allied powers (USA, USSR, Britain and France).. Containment. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Pan. Berlin Blockade/Airlift. Views on Germany. Stalin. . - wanted to destroy Germany, was stripping East Germany of its wealth and machinery. . Britain, US and France. 2. D – Origins of the Cold War. Essential Question. How did the US and the Soviet Union become Cold War adversaries?. Learning Outcomes - Students will:. Preview – Iron Curtain?. Case Study: Berlin Blockade. At the end of World War II Berlin, former capital of the Third Reich, was a divided city in a divided country. The wartime Allies--the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union--originally intended Berlin's division as a symbol of Germany's defeat. Within 3 years, however, Berlin was transformed from the capital of tyranny to an island of freedom; a symbol, not of Germany's defeat, but of the emerging Cold War. The Berlin problem was an accident, the result of bad planning and Cold War tensions. On the wrong side of the Iron Curtain and a victim of the inability of the East and West to agree on German unification, Berlin was caught in a recurring cycle of crisis and resolution, pitting the legality of Western rights against the reality of Soviet power. In fact, the history of Berlin--the Berlin Blockade, the East Berlin uprising, the Berlin Quadripartite Agreement, and the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall--reflects the history of the Cold War itself. . 3. rd. Year History. Causes of the Cold War. Political . differences. Disagreements during WW2 . The US slow to open ‘second front’. 27 m Russians died.. Atomic bomb not shared with USSR.. The Iron Curtain. Buffer zone of ‘satellite states’. Tension.. Eastern Europe. Nikita Khrushchev followed Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.. Destalinization. was the purging of the country of Stalin’s memory.. When Hungary tried to gain independence the Soviets invaded and kept communist control.. L/O – To identify the causes and effects of the Berlin Blockade on relations between the superpowers. The Occupation of Germany. In 1945, Germany was invaded by Western Powers and Soviet forces. It was decided at Yalta and Potsdam to . L/O – To identify the causes and effects of the Berlin Blockade on relations between the superpowers. The Occupation of Germany. In 1945, Germany was invaded by Western Powers and Soviet forces. It was decided at Yalta and Potsdam to . The Cold War. 1945-89. Cold War . – Struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war.. “Means Short of Action/War?”. Alliances. CONTAINMENT. Space Race. Arms Race. US II Honors. River Dell Regional HS. Mrs. Rivas. Occupation Zones in Germany. What should be done to Germany?. The Western zones decided to replace the nearly worthless German currency with new money, a move the Soviets ferociously opposed. By end of WWII, alliance between G.B., U.S., and U.S.S.R. disintegrating. Cold war = competition for global influence between democracy/capitalism and communism. Led to: alliances (-> “iron curtain”), client states, arms race, diplomatic . . ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. The. Cold . War - a . period of strained relations and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union . that lasted . from 1945 - 1991. After . being Allies during WWII, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. soon viewed each other with increasing . PRELUDE TO THE COLD WAR Both Germany and Japan were decimated by the war The Potsdam Conference was held by the Allies in Potsdam, Germany to work out the details of their joint occupation of Germany. Origins of the Cold War – . #8 Kennan’s Long Telegram & Containment. Developed by a young diplomat and State Department Soviet specialist, George F. Kennan. The Long . Telegram (1946) . was widely circulated within U.S. bureaucracy.