Cold War: Europe
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HIS 187
The Cold War world
Potsdam, 1945
Nuremberg, 1945–1946
Potsdam part 2
Partition of Germany, 1945
“whatever their intentions”
“The Long Telegram,” February 1946
- USSR holds “no permanent peaceful coexistence” with capitalism
- capitalism generates conflict, which it prefers to project outward
- USSR would therefore promote conflict within the capitalist world
- for them, “everything must be done to advance relative strength of USSR . . . no opportunity must be missed to reduce strength and influence . . . of capitalist powers”
- “relentless battle much be waged against socialist and social-democratic leaders abroad”