Chapter 4, Cold War

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  • Colonial global empires come to an end

  • The SU and the US became superpowers

    The Eastern bloc led by the SU and the West led by the US

  • Allies occupy Germany

  • Stalin / Roosevelt / Churchill gather in Yalta

    They agreed to continue their cooperation

  • Stalin / Truman / Churchill meet in Potsdam near Berlin

    They couldn't seem to agree this time

  • Sukarno proclaims Republic of Indonesia

  • US grants Philippines independence

  • British give up India

  • Pakistan was created

  • Dutch attack Indonesians (''police action'')

  • Truman feared Turkey / Greece would become SU vassal states

  • US starts supporting the West economically

    By means of the Marshall plan, they tried to keep the West on their side.

  • British give up Palestine

  • Israel was attacked by Arab

  • Tensions in Germany arose

  • Stalin tries to take up the whole of Berlin

  • Benelux was created

  • Dutch took Indonesian president prisoner

  • Dutch are forced to grant Indonesia independence

  • US joins military alliance NATO

  • SU tests atomic bomb

  • Council of Europe is founded

  • BRD got a democratic constitution

  • Stalin ends the blockade around Berlin

  • DDR was created

  • Queen Juliana signs transfer of sovereignty (freedom for Indonesia)

  • France proposes to West Germany to put coal / steel industry under common management

    Germany reacts enthusiastically

  • North Korea invades South Korea

    Causing immediate response from the US

  • Italy / Benelux / France / Germany found European Coal and Steel Community

  • Stalin dies

  • France gives up Vietnam

  • War broke out in Algeria

  • West European welfare began to rise

  • Warsaw Pact was formed

  • Israel was attacked by Arab

  • France grant Morocco and Tunisia independence

  • British give up south of the Sahara (Ghana)

  • EEC is founded

    European Economic Community
  • Period: to

    British and France give up many colonies

  • Berlin wall was ordered to be built

  • Operation X (saving the communist state)

  • France gives up Algeria

  • Cuban nuclear missile crisis

    SU stores nuclear weapons on Cuba, near the US.
  • Period: to

    Détente: 15 years of decreased tension

  • Israel was attacked by Arab

  • Israel was attacked by Arab

  • Portugal gives up colonies

  • White regime is taken down in South Africa

  • White regime was taken down in Zimbabwe

  • Animosity between superpower began rising again

  • Cold War cooled down

  • Cold War came to a definite end

  • Berlin Wall gets torn down

  • DDR is over

  • Communism in SU dissolves

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