THE COLD WAR

CLASH OF IDEALS

CAPITALISM

• Supply and demand
• Private ownership
• Limited government

COMMUNISM

• Price control
• Social control
• No property ownership
• No religion
• Secret police

END OF WWII

U.S. WANTED:

• Economic revival in Europe
• Democracy
• Reconstruction of Germany

SOVIETS WANTED:

• Communist governments
• "Buffer" between Germany
• War reparations

WWII DEATHS IN MILLIONS

POST-WAR PLANNING

YALTA

KEY DECISIONS: POLAND

• Poland = communist
• Elections held later

ALL SIGNED

GERMANY DIVIDED

WAR REPARATIONS

POST CONFERENCE

STALIN GOES BACK ON HIS WORD

FDR DIES

HARRY TRUMAN