1st time : Cold War

Roosevelt died in 1945 : Truman became President.

UN : - General Assembly : today, more than 200 people
- Secretariat : bureaucracy
- Security council : 15 members today, power

Five firsts : GB, France, USA, China, Russia

Atomic energy : Baruch Plan 1946 : how to controll
Info spread

East-West mutual separation
Churchill "Iron Curtain" speech : no info through (said beacause of problem Greece-Turkey)

USSR severe losses ≈ 27,000,000 human beings

Background :
1917 : bolchevik revolution : communism ≠ capitalism
USA didn't recognize USSR untill 1933 (created on December 30th, 1922)

World War II : Great Alliance : UK, US, USSR. But suspicious and lack of trust

The bomb:
Stalin didn't tell about the research and learnt about the Los Alamos bomb as soon as Truman did.
Stalin recognized this explosion was to intimidate Russians.

George F. Kennan : Foreign Affairs> new policy containment
>Truman Doctrin 1947 began with Greece and turkey and finished with all communism.

Marshall Plan 1948> for trade with all. USSR didn't agree

Czechoslovaquia fell to communism 1948 : the most "capitalismly" advanced...

US cut Berlin how to survive : GB and USSR provided

June 1950 : North Korea invaded South

1949 : Mao Tzedong won Civil War>communism

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2nd part: oral of pupils about their file : atomic energy