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Allied invasion of Communist Russia during Russian Civil War
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Nazi-Soveit Non-aggression Pact
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Atlantic Charter
No aggrandizement; respect the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live
formed fundamental tenet of Yalta's "Declaration of Liberated Europe", which Stalin had signed -
D-Day (delayed second front)
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Litvinov memorandum
Mxim Litvinov was the leading policy maker of Stalin.
He envisioned that :
USA would dominate the western hemisphere and the Pacific
Britain would be the supreme naval pwer that would dominate nations like the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece
USSR would be the great land power linked to a zone in the east and north consisting of Finland, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey. -
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Yalta Conference
Declaration of Liberated Europe was signed
"...in assisting the peoples liberated from the domination of Nazi Germany and the people of the former Axis atellite states of Europe to solve by democratic means .."
Create democratic insititutions of their own choice.
The right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live-the restoration of sovereign rights and self-government to these people who have been forcibly deprived to them by the aggressor nations -
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Potsdam conference
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USA Navy Day celebration
Truman continued to appeal to Soviet-American cooperation. He affirmed that there were no "hopeless or irreconcilable differences " among the wartime allies. -
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Council of Foreign Ministers(follow up of Potsdam Conference)
The Red Army left Czechoslovakia in December 1945 as a concession to the West.