HIST 1F95 Lecture Notes - Igor Gouzenko, Yalta Conference, X Article
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Outline: from ally to antagonist, the truman doctrine, the german question. Igor gouzenko worked at the embassy of soviet union in ottawa in 1943. Job was to encrypt classified information from ottawa to soviet union. Information about spy rings that were located in canada and the us. Soviet union has spies in north america there was a chilling in relations. Stalin, roosevelt and churchill met at yalta conference to discuss post-war plans. Divided germany up to be governed by the allies. Some disagreement about what to be done with poland: churchill wanted. Post years: soviet union and allies cooperated enough to divide up germany. The nuremburg tribunal (1950) was a conference where powers determined war crimes. Soviet union and japan never signed a peace treaty because the soviet union still occupied japanese islands. Iran, turkey and greece soviet union kept trying to get the upper hand. By 1946 soviet union"s control seemed to be solidifying.
