19.1 guided reading

Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were strained during the war and became even tenser as time passed.

1. as wartime allies, the Soviets disagree bitterly with their American and British Partners ever Battle Tactics and postwar plans 2. The US had not even recognize the legal existence of the Soviet government until 1933

The Soviet Union took control of the nations of Eastern Europe.

3. In February 1945, Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland they agreed on the division of Germany Germany into the American, British, French, and the Soviet occupation zones the Soviet zone became East Germany. 4. Roosevelt and Churchill rejected Stalin's demand that Germany pay the Soviet Union 20 billion dollars in war damages

After the war, Americans disagreed about which political approach to take toward Soviet-American relations.

American spot to bring democracy and Economic Opportunity to the conquered nations of Europe and Asia the United States hope to see these goals to achieve in the postwar world. 6. And economically strong and politically open world would also serve American interests by providing markets for its products.

Satellite Nation -

countries subject to Soviet domination, on the western borders of the Soviet Union that would serve as a buffer zone against attacks

Cold War -

the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union for power the and influence in the world. For nearly 50 years, until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War was characterized by political and economic conflict and Military tensions.

Iron curtain

the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

Truman Doctrine-

the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.