HIST 1150 Chapter Notes -Marshall Plan, Yalta Conference, Iron Curtain

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Week 9: the yalta conference and the postwar world. This was the second of three wartime conferences (cairo was before the war) between the united states (under roosevelt), great britain (under. Churchill), and the soviet union (under stalin, obv). The allied powers met to discuss post-war europe assuming that germany would fall eventually. Churchill wanted to prevent stalin from industrializing post-war europe. Roosevelt who at the time was superior to churchill due to the us war efforts insisted that all of europe host free post-war elections. Stalin accepted this however would not allow any anti-soviet government. East-west confrontation that churchill originally intended to avoid . The final decision of the yalta conference was to allow each country the land that is occupied by its soldiers when hitler inevitably fell and the allies won the war. Pearl harbor sparked the us involvement in ww2, as after this disastrous attack by the japanese, us enthusiasm was directed toward the war.

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