The Cold War

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The Cold War by Mind Map: The Cold War

1. The war lasted from 1945-1960.

2. Causes of the Cold War

2.1. Ideological Differences

2.2. Economic Differences

2.3. Political Differnces

3. President Truman’s Postwar Vision

3.1. Truman worked to clean up the postwar mess and establish a new international order.

4. After prosecuting Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Truman in 1947 also outlined the Marshall Plan,which set aside more than $10 billion for the rebuilding and reindustrialization of Germany.

5. The Marshall Plan was so successful that factories in Western Europe were exceeding their prewar production levels within just a few years.

6. The Cold War was fought between the soviet Union and the United States.

7. One things that eased the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was...

7.1. They both possessed hydrogen bombs. They realized if they used the hydrogen bombs they would destroy each other.

8. He protested President Truman's Marshall Plan

8.1. Although Stalin joined with the United States in founding the United Nation, he fought Truman on nearly every other issue

9. Soviet premier Stalin’s Postwar Vision

10. Stalin followed through on his plan to create a buffer between the Soviet Union and Germany by setting up pro-Communist governments in Poland and other Eastern European countries.

11. Stalin also tried unsuccessfully to drive French, British, and American occupation forces from the German city of Berlin by blocking highway and railway access.

12. Determined not to let the city fall, Truman ordered the Berlin airlift to drop food and medical supplies for starving Berliners.