Cold war causes

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  • Teheran Conference

    It is a diplomatic factor which contributed to the break out of the Cold War due to the agreements that resulted from this Conference, which were ambiguos.

  • Allied forces ivaded france

  • Red Army entered central poland

  • Anglo-Soviet 'percentages agreement'

    It is a diplomatic cause to the Cold War because it led to territorial disputes of Britain and The USSR over nations such as Greece, Poland, and others.

  • Britsh suppressed communist uprising in Greece

  • Yalta Conference

    It is a factor of diplomacy which led to the Cold War. Several points of agreement, however Stalin promised free elections in Poland, leading to misunderstanding among the leaders of the Grand Alliance.

  • Truman becomes president

    Diplomacy and pilitics are both factors in this particular cause. Truman's anti-communist administration contributed to the break up of the wartime alliance, since Stalin felt threatened by the new US' foreign policy and administration.

  • Unconditional German surrender

  • Postdam Conference

    Truman's disagreement with the Polish agreement as well as the Percentages agreements. Additionally, the discussion of the division of Germany took place, which led to tensions between the USSR and the Western nations when Nazi Germany fell.

  • Second World War ends

  • Kennan's telegram

    It was a diplomatic factor. It denounced the foreign and domestic policies of the USSR, by also criticizing them, this influenced on the US perspective towards the USSR and therefore it influenced in the Cold War.

  • Iron Curtain speech

    Churchill declared publically its condemns over the Soviet threat to the Western hemisphere and its will to expand. It contributed to the out break of the Cold War as the blocs were defined in the speech.

  • Independence of the Phillippines

    It is a political factor. In the independence of the Philippines, the US demonstrated its will to expand and to establish conventional military bases taking into accoun the geopolitical importance of the region. Therefore, it might have contributed to the distrust between the USSR and the US after the war.

  • Interview to Stalin in Pravda

    The response of Stalin towards the Iron Curtain speech marks a diplomatic division between the Grand Alliance since now the two blocs are defined geographically. Tensions arose and Stalin's paranoia increased. Meaning this is a diplomatic factor.

  • Truman Doctrine

    It is a political factor that contributed to the out break. It consisted on the erradication of communist all over Europe. This was considered a threat to the USSR and a betrayal to the wartime alliance. Additionally, it led to the Marshall Plan

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan consisted on helping the economies of Europe to contain communism from being spread, this was made by implementing business, reconstruction of infraestructure, etc. This can be considered a diplomatic and economic factor which led to the out break of the Cold War.

  • Anglo-American Bizone formed

    The bizonia was when the US and Britain joined their German occupation zones into one. This event was a diplomatic factor which led to Stalin's fear of a threat by the Western powers as it violated an aspect of one of the wartime agreements.
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    Berlin Blockade

    It has political, economic and diplomatic factors as it consisted on the unification of France, Britain and the USA to establish a Wester German government while the USSR wanted to establish an East German state which led to a Berlin blockade. It was the first crisis of the Cold War when the city was divided in four parts where the ACC had control of West Berlin, which made Stalin prevent military supplies, water, road or transport through Eastern Germany into West Berlin.

  • Creation of COMECON

    It was an economic and political factor created as close relations were established between Western European countries and the USA based on the Marshall plan so the Soviets responded with their own economic programme (COMECON). It was formed by the USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia among others. The objevtive of the COMECON was to provide economic stability to Eastern Eurpoean countries that suffered the loss of traditional markets.