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1. Who was President at the end of WWII?
2. What happened to Germany at the end of WWII?
3. Which two countries emerged from WWII as Super Powers?
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Potsdam Conference
• Summer 1945 • Truman, Stalin, Churchill• Plan to divide Germany
is implemented• Soviets wanted a buffer
between their borders and Western Europe
• US/British wanted to spread democracies
• Potsdam was a failure
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The Truman Doctrine, 1947
• US will fight Communism• Truman Doctrine
• Outlines Containment• US gives $400 million to aid Greece
and Turkey fight communism
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The Truman Doctrine, 1947
President Truman outlined the Truman Doctrine to a joint session
of Congress in March of 1947
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The Marshall Plan, 1947
• Marshall Plan 1947• US give $15 Billion to W. Europe to rebuild
Fight Communism
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The Marshall Plan, 1947
A map showing how the plan’s $20B was
distributed by country
Photo shows a delivery of wheat from the U.S. being
unloaded in Rotterdam, Netherlands
US Foreign Policy-Containment
• Allow communism to stay where it is but not spread
• Domino Theory- whole region in jeopardy
• US Foreign Policy for the next 40 years
• Eastern Europe- “Iron Curtain”
• Cold War-based on the threat of nuclear war