Cold War Origins

• The Soviet Union and Communism

• The United States and Democracy

• Era preceding WWII

• WWII: Marriage of Convenience

• The Atomic Age

Marching to War

• Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland

• Watchful Waiting: U.S. Isolation

• Arsenal of Democracy

• Lend Lease

• Invasion of the USSR

• December 7, 1941

Wartime Diplomacy

• Atlantic Charter

• The Fourteen Points and Four Freedoms

• Declaration of War: Axis and Allies

• Europe First

• Mobilization at Home

African Conferences

• Casablanca and Cairo

• The Big Three

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Second Front

• African Campaigns

• Soft Underbelly Strategy

• Mistrusting your ally

Teheran and Yalta

• Question of Poland

• Second Front

• Postwar Germany

• War in Asia

• Spoils of War

• D-Day Invasion

The U.N. and Potsdam

• San Francisco, Spring 45

• FDR’s Death

• Potsdam: Waning days of the Alliance

• Unconditional Surrender

• The Bomb

• Postwar chessboard

The Cold War

• Europe in the Ashes

• Threat of Communism

• Rebirth via Marshall Plan

• Eastern Europe

• Iron Curtain

Containment

• Turkey and Greece

• Neutrality Abandoned

• Truman Doctrine

• Mr. X

• National Security Doctrine

Berlin Crisis

• A Divided City and Occupation Zones

• DeNazification

• Germany Awakening

• Stalin’s Gamble

• Truman’s Choices

• NATO