In 1947, a famous leader said that _______ had fallen across the continent.Who was the leader who said it?

Cold War Review

a) An “Iron Curtain”b) Winston Churchill

Yalta Conference March 1945

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#1: At the Yalta Conference, what did Churchill, FDR, and Stalin agree to do with Germany, Poland and the countries of Eastern Europe after World War II?

WW2 Review

a) To divide Germany into 4 parts, occupied by each of the victorious countries

b) To hold “free and fair elections” in Poland and Eastern Europe

Soviet Takeover of Eastern Europe 1945-47

1. Civil War breaks out in Greece between communists and anti-communists.

2. Turkey under pressure from the USSR for land in the Dardanelles.

Truman Doctrine [1947]

1. Civil War in Greece.

2. Turkey under pressure from the USSR for land in the Dardanelles.

3. Truman Doctrine: “The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who are resisting takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures…We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.”

4. The U.S. gave Greece & Turkey $400 million in economic & military aid.

1948: Conflict Over Berlin

In 1948 Stalin decides to block all roads and

trains leading into Berlin from the west.

Division of Germany—The 4 Occupation Zones

Division of Berlin

Berlin

So how do you get food, fuel, and clothing to 2 million people before they start dying off?

Options for the U.S.1. Let the Soviets have

Berlin2. Send in army and

take over the road leading to Berlin and hope the Russians don’t shoot at you

3. Fly in supplies over Soviet airspace and hope the Russians don’t shoot you down

Berlin

Berlin Airlift 1948

Berlin Airlift 1948

• Lasted 327 days• Planes took off & landed around the clock• 277,000 flights brought in 2.3 million tons of

supplies: food, fuel, medicine• In May 1949 the Soviet Union lifted the

blockade