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3/1/2016
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Beginnings of the Cold War

Key Terms:
to precipitate something = to make something
happen, suddenly and quickly

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Post-war Reconstruction
Germany
Divided into 4 occupation zones
(Yalta Conference)
Nuremberg Trials: Nazi leaders
prosecuted by allies

Japanese occupation: 1945

1952
Governed by Douglas MacArthur
Re-established democracy
Peace clause: no standing army

Bretton Woods System

Bretton Woods Agreement organized by Henry
Morgenthau (Sec. of Treasury), 1944
Created International Monetary Fund (IMF) to
maintain international financial system
Created World Bank to give loans for economic
recovery after war

United Nations
Planned at Dumbarton Oaks
(1944)
UN Charter created at San
Francisco Conference (1945)
Security Council
5 permanent nations with veto power
can authorize military force

General Assembly allows debate

between all nations
Ratified with Republican &
Democratic support in Senate

Containment
Containment = keeping
Communism from spreading
Soviet Union takes control
of Eastern Europe installs
Communist governments
George Kennans Long
Telegram from Moscow
proposes containment
theory
Iron Curtain speech by
Winston Churchill

Containment
Truman Doctrine: US will give aid to
countries resisting Communism (beginning
with Greece & Turkey)
Marshall Plan gave reconstruction help
to Western Europe to stop the spread of
Communism

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