The Beginning of the Cold War

Who are these Three men who met after WWII in a German town named Potsdam?

• Stalin, FDR and Winston Churchill
• Truman, Stalin and Churchill
• Stalin, FDR and Truman
• Stalin, Truman and George Marshall

What was the main discussion point at the meeting at Potsdam?

• How to punish Germany (again)
• How to manage nuclear power
• What to do with Nazi officers and the SS officers
• How to split Germany and Japan

At this earlier meeting, just weeks before FDR passed away, Stalin convinces FDR and a very unhappy Churchill to let him occupy Eastern Europe

• Yalta
• Berlin
• Potsdam

This organization was created to protect nations from war, from genocide and to create international rules of behavior

• The League of Nations
• The United Nations
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What do you see as the biggest potential problem here?

• oops--there are Frenchmen living in Germany
• Oops--there are still Nazis in Germany
• oops--someone forgot to build a wall to keep all the Germans in East Berlin from leaving

Why would East Germans want to "bug out"  of East Berlin?

• They wanted to join the American army--for food and shelter
• No jobs
• did not want to live under Communism
• did not want to live under Capitalism

Characteristics of Communism

• government owns many industries
• economic equality is not as important as competition
• laissez-faire, supply and demand driven
• everything regulated by the governemnt