Explain the Significance of:Yalta Conference, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Aid, and the Berlin Crisis.

... Luciana Machado IB History - yr 2 13.10.04 Explain the Significance of: Yalta Conference Truman Doctrine Marshall Aid Berlin Crisis The Cold War had its roots in the beginning of the 1940s hinging around factors that contributed to its rise. In order for one to fully understand the nature of the Cold War, one must first access some of its main factors: the Yalta Conference, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Crisis. This essay will focus on the significance of all occurrences respectively and how this affected the periods between 1945 and 1951. The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4 to 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The delegations were headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin respectively. was a continuation of the series of meetings begun

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