Political systems – State controlled all property and economic activity Totalitarian Government No opposing parties

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• Political systems – State controlled all property and economic activity

• Totalitarian Government

• No opposing parties

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• Political System: Capitalist

• Private citizens controlled almost all economic activity

• Voting• Competing Political

Parties

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•Hope for Peace•USA & USSR use

the UN to spread their influence over others

• June 26, 1945

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• Big Three: USA, USSR, Great Britain

• Harry S. Truman’s Test as a diplomat

• USSR not keep promise of free elections in Eastern Europe

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• Countries dominated by Soviet Union

• Countries that Stalin implemented Communist Governments

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• Division of Europe Division of Europe Between Between Democratic and Democratic and Communist Communist countriescountries

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•Conflict between USA and USSR in which neither nation confronted each other on the battlefield

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•Keep Soviet influence from spreading (Greece & Turkey)

•400 Million to Greece and Turkey

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•George Marshall Secretary of State

• June 1947•Help Western

Europe with money (13 Billion)

•Europe in chaos after WWII

• Three Nations unify Western Europe (map on page 605)

• Stalin close rail routes to West Berlin

• No food – only 5 weeks• Americans and Brits fly

food and supplies to West Berlin

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• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Western European Nations (12 members)

• Military support to each other

• End of U.S. isolationism

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