Yalta Conference

The Cold War was a conflict between the two Superpowers which emerged victorious from the end of World War Two. These powers were the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Even though there was no direct military action between the two countries, the 'war' greatly changed the political scene of Europe. In his GCSE text, PJ Larkin (1965) in his British revision book states that the Cold War was a “mixture of religious crusade in favour of one ideology…

President Harry Truman became the 33rd President of the United States on April 12, 1945 after Franklin D. Roosevelt died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Truman, being thrust into a position that carries a lot of weight, was given the power to decide how the U.S. would operate with other countries. Some of Truman’s decisions like fighting against communism by manking the Truman Dcotrine and laying an anti-communism bedrock for foreign policy, trying to stop the expansion of the USSR and Manipulating…

rescuers and the rescued and fore hitler to speed up the extermination of the jewish people ending in a loss for everyone. after D-Day at the Yalta conference Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin created a plan on how they were going to re organize the world after the war. unfortunately roosevelt would never see these plans in action as soon after the yalta conference he died of a brain hemorrhage on april 12th…

States had a new leader in Harry Truman who was thrown into the work that Roosevelt had been doing with Stalin and Churchill. Before his death Roosevelt had managed to negotiate terms with both the Soviet Union and Britain at the Yalta Conference. However, the Yalta Conference was more a foreshadowing of potential events and reactions than it was a peace settlement. The problem that no one chose to address was the emergence of two national super powers that not only had little trust for each…

will always ring in the hearts of those that bore witness to it. The end of World War II led to the division of Germany. The United States (U.S.), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), and the United Kingdom (U.K.) met at the Potsdam Conference and decided that…

Great Britain and France would no longer be strong enough to police the world. Realizing that it would be America’s responsibility to combat forces opposed to democracy, he began to make plans in a series of conferences with allied leaders, even as the war raged on. At the Atlantic Conference, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a joint declaration of self determination, there would be no changes made in territory against the wishes of the people, self government would be restored, and they would…

Korea felt threatened during this time because the U.S. was a major superpower and had yet to receive help from the pact made at the Yalta Conference in 1945. North Korea had no choice but to join the nearest superpower that wasn’t dropping bombs on the country and try to show their loyalty after the Soviet Red Army liberated North Korea the same year as the Yalta Conference. Tensions between North Korea and any other United States ally rose when the U.S. passed the Trading with the Enemy Act…

genocide – the intentional killing of a large group of people who belong to a particular national, racial, cultural, or political group 1. Why was Heinrich Himmler a key to the implementation of Hitler’s New Order? Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS and a fervent supporter of the Nazi racial ideology in which he would obediently carry out Hitler’s New Order. In Hitler’s New Order, Hitler strongly believed that that only the Germans were capable of organizing Europe. Therefore, as Germany…

attitude towards Stalin than did Roosevelt; he was extremely suspicious of Soviet actions as well as Stalin’s intentions. During the conference it was agreed that in order to effectively disarm Germany, it was imperative to shift eastern borders westward, reducing Germany’s size and agricultural capabilities. Many topics were discussed throughout the conference, however, Truman disagreed with many of Stalin’s proposals; consequently only a few agreements were made. New representatives with…

“The German Question”: Fragile Decisions After the Two World Wars Both World War I and World War II presented the victors with the same dilemma: how to keep the German power in balance with other nations around the world. However, the foreign decisions after both wars severely hampered the ability to answer “The German Question”. Because the Treaty of Versailles answered “The German Question” by demoting Germany’s economic status, the resolution led to another war. World War II concluded with…