conclusion

    • evaluation vs. significance
      • evaluation - how far statement
      • significance - e.g. highly
    • link successive paragraph

    Berlin - center point of the Cold war

    • symbolic

    Yalta conference

    • German question
    • agreement on self-determination (except Poland)
    • creation of the UN
      • Security Council
        • SU gets to veto against the democratic side
        • P5 - Republic of China, UK, US, SU, France
      • avoided problems of the LoN
    • Border changes
      • half of Poland to SU and Poland get land from Germany
      • Poland lost more to SU than gained from Germany
    • ‘Liberated Europe’
    • some legal binding and some by real force

    Poland

    • Government in exile in London
      • London Poles
    • Lublin Committee
      • Communists
      • eventually controlled Poland b/c SU backed it up with force

    Potsdam Conference

    • FDR died - Truman
    • Churchill voted out - Attlee (Labor party, leftist shift)
    • Colder atmosphere
    • agreed on denazification
      • 1st time for punishment of massacre
      • war criminals tried and executed
      • vetting process for bureaucrats
    • German reparation
      • SU expected more
      • Stalin allowed to take from the east, not the west
    • reformation of political parties
      • SPD, CSU, CDU
    • Ruhr valley - close to France
      • Stalin wanted it
    • Allied Control Commission
      • occupation zones
    • problem of German sovereignty
      • when and how it to decide over its own fate
    • nuclear bomb
      • US successfully tasted it a day before it
      • At sometime an intelligent civilization will have destroyed themselves
      • post-war situation in Japan critical to US

    Adenaur

    • leader of West Germany

    Germany NOT expected to be split by Yalta or Potsdam conference

    • only zones of occupations

    Japan question settled by General MacArthur and US

    • b/c SU no foot on it

    Who is responsible for the Cold War

    • the tides of history?
      • no solution to the tension and conflicts
      • b/c they cannot invade each other
      • stalemate
      • conflict occurs when there is imbalance of power
    • macro-history
      • historical forces / Great Man argument
    • Cold War
      • conflict without direct military conflict between the two countries
      • ideological race (e.g. coke vs. vodka)
      • space race etc.
      • soft power conflict
    • significance of personal relationships

    Was it inevitable or could it have been avoided

    • ideologiy - communism to crush all others
      • private property
      • democracy
      • representative government
      • free election
      • collectivism vs. individualism

    How honest was Stalin

    • dissolved Comintern (but also to pacify)

    HW:

    • 45-50 Cold War in Europe
    • 50-70 Cold War in Asia & Cuba