Eastern Europe Takeover

Stalin’s Speech Feb 1946

Long Telegram 1946

• Became basis for containment policy

• Written by US Ambassador after Stalin’s Speech

• Panic over expansionism

  • Leninist world revolution &

  • Expansion of empire historically

Iron Curtain Speech

• In America, warns of the threat from USSR

• Stalin is angered

  • Compares Churchill to Hitler and calls him a warmongerer

Iran Crisis March 1946

• Agreement for withdrawal of British & Soviet occupying troops

  • Soviets weren’t removed

  • Sign of Stalin’s expansionism and mistrust

  • Removed after commands from UN

• USA returned ambassador’s body on largest naval ship

Turkish Straits Crisis April 1946

• Soviets wanted a naval base on the Straits

  • Pressuring government

• British sent naval warship as a deterrant

Paris Conference 1946

• Discussed possibility of moving German borders

  • Loss of land for USSR (E Germany)

• Tensions over reparations

Truman Doctrine March 1947

Marshall Plan June 1947

Bikini Atoll

• Tested more nuclear weapons

• Show of military strength and nuclear monopoly

• Provocation

Marshall Plan 1947