HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Vyacheslav Molotov, Yalta Conference, Truman Doctrine
Document Summary
Visions for the post-war settlement two superpowers/bi-polar world rebuilding europe. New international institutions and alliances ending wwii turning points: el alamein and stalingrad surrender of italy (1943) Atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki (august 1945) soviet advances the british and americans could use north america as a launching pad to move up the italian peninsula. Hitler"s generals wanted to give up stalingrad and wanted to move around the allies to the oil fields, but hitler attacked the city directly. Two great russian armies came down to stalingrad and surrounded the germans. German army was frozen, malnurished, because they were stuck and they surrendered in 1943. Stalingrad was the furthest german got into russia. After disaster in north africa, el alamein. Mussolini was discredited; lost a lot of domestic support. New government came in, signed a treety with the allied forcecs, surrender. Hitler didn"t think this was a good idea. They didn"t think that allies should have a base right.
