iron curtain containment - 1946 - 1947

when did the iron curtain Containment happen?

1946 - 1947

what did the US

Britain

where was the agreement between the US

Soviet Union

what else did Stalin agree to at the Yalta conference? besides land

he agreed to hold free elections

what did Stalin believe in

he needed buffer states to protect the Soviet Union from future invasions

what did Stalin understand about communism and capitalism

they cannot co exist. he has to spread communism to survive

what did The Soviet Union do regarding the agreement with us and Britain?

they kept troops in Eastern Europe

what is a puppet government

government controlled by outside forces

after ww2 describe Europe

it was divided between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

what was Western Europe like?

free and democratic

what was Eastern Europe like

controlled by the Soviet Union and turned into communist satellites

what are the names of some of the Eastern European countries

Poland

what are satellite states

countries under complete Soviet control

why is it called the iron curtain?

it's a invisible division across Europe

even tho there wasn't a iron curtain physicaly there

what was?

what was Winston Churchill quote

from stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic

when did Winston Churchill make his quote

March 5 1946 from Fulton Missouri

why is this event significant

it revealed the division between the US and the Soviet Union's ideologies.

who was running the Soviet Union during this iron curtain

Stalin

what is a containment policy

The United States' policy of attempting to stop the spread of communism.

why did the US start the containment policy

they saw that stalin ain't going to stop

who was George f Kennan

A US diplomat who created the policy of containment

what documents resulted from this

Truman doctrine