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What: 2nd Meeting between the super powers (US, Britian, USSR)
Where: Potsdam Germany
Effect on the Cold War: Potsdam was seen as the start of the cold war.
Effect on Liberalism: This event started the struggle between capitalist liberalism and communism. -
What: An American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
Where: Hiroshima, Japan.
Effect on Cold War: This led to an arms race, specifically nuclear weapons.
Effect on Liberalism: This was an attempt to scare countries into joining the US. -
What: Three days after Hiroshima the US dropped a second Bomb on the japanese city of Nagasaki.
Where: Nagasaki, Japan.
Effect on Cold War: Had people worried about MAD.
Effect on Liberalism: Scared countries to join the US -
What: A 400 million dollar economic and military aid package to Greece and Turkey.
Where: Greece Turkey US
Effect on the Cold War: It was the beginning of the struggle between the two ideological competitors.
Effect on Liberalism: LIberalism increased as more countries joined the US Capitalist liberal sphere of influence. -
What: 13 billion dollar plan to help European countries devastated by war. Way bigger than the Truman Doctrine.
Where: Paris
Effect on cold war: Caused more competition with the USSR.
Effect on Liberalism: This more countries on the US side. -
What: It was the Soviet version of the marshall plan.
Where: USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany
Effect on the Cold War: Direct response to the marshall plan
Effect on Liberalism: spread communism and took away liberalism. -
What: The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
Where: Berlin, Germany
Effect on the Cold War: It heightened tensions between the US and the USSR.
Effect on Liberalism: It prevented the spread of liberalism -
What: Signed by Britain, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. All countries that signed would assist one another if attacked by the soviets. ( US eventually joined and it became NATO in 1949)
Where: Western european countries.
Effect on the Cold War: caused the creation of the Warsaw Pact.
Effect on liberalism: Provided security and mutual protection for those with rights. -
What: The Soviets had nuclear weapons.
Where: Former Soviet Union
Effect on Cold War: People were concerned about MAD.
Effect on Liberalism: Liberalism was not spread. -
Alliances formed with US and other capitalist liberal countries. Expanding the US's sphere of influence.
Where: US, Britain, France, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands.
Effect on cold war: Caused the Warsaw Pact.
Effect on Liberalism: Spread liberalism and increased freedoms. -
What: Korean was split in two. North korea advanced to the 38th parallel.
Where, North and South Korea
Effect on Cold War: An Armistice was called when the chinese and the soviets got involved.
Effect on Liberalism: Republic of korea had a election. -
What: Stalin died. Krushchev was in and was willing to work with the US
Where: Soviet Union
Effect on Cold War: This led to the reduction of tensions and eventually the end of the cold war.
Effect on Liberalism: Liberalism had a chance to spread now that hitler wasn't there to stop it. -
What: In response to NATO and The Marshall plan. Countries connected with the soviet communism created the Warsaw Pact.
Where: Warsaw, Poland
Effect on Cold War: Used primarily as a tool to maintain economic cooperation among Warsaw Pact states and to deter individual states from forming trade relations with the West.
Effect on Liberalism: Took away freedoms from countries that joined. -
What: The US started sending weapons in 1956. By 1966 more than half a million troops are there. The war killed over 60 000 troops and over a million civilians.
Where: Vietnam
Effect on Cold War: The Soviet side won.
Effect on Liberalism: Capitalist liberals lost. -
What: Giant protest against the soviets. A resistance began, a new gov't was put in and hungary declared their intention to withdrawl from the warsaw pact. The politburo invaded against their previous word. 200 000 casualties- 250 dead. 700 soviets dead-200 000 Hungarians fled.
Where: Hungary
Effect on Cold War: Soviets won.
Effect on Liberalism: -
What: The North American Aerospace Defense Command. Early warning system for nuclear attacks.
Where: US, Canada
Effect on the Cold War: In response to Soviet bomb threats.
Effect on Liberalism: It gave those with freedom more security. -
What: Fidel Castro led a revolution and overthrew the US supported gov't.
Where: Cuba
Effect on the Cold War: Caused Embargo vs. Cuba
Effect on Liberalism: He was socialist. -
What: The CIA trained Cuban exiles from florida to go overthrow Castro.
Where: Bay of Pigs, Cuba
Effect on Cold War: Caused the USSR to bring a missiles into Cuba.
Effect on Liberalism: A failed attempt to get cuba back on the US side. -
What: A wall built by Soviets to keep East germans from escaping.
Where: East Germany
Effect on Cold War.: The berlin wall signifies the ideological separation of the cold war.
Effect on Liberalism: The wall was built to keep liberalism out. -
What: Kennedy ordered a naval blockade around cuba, soviets could not deliver anything. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev made an agreement and Khrushchev turned his ships around.
Where: Cuba
Effect on Cold War: Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba, US would not invade Cuba, the US would remove missiles from Turkey.
Effect on Liberalism: Neither side won. -
What: Alex Dubcek came into power and began liberalization. soviets were NOT happy. Warsaw Pact allies invaded. They remained there till 1990.
Where: Czechoslovakia
Effect on the Cold War: Soviets maintained power.
Effect on Liberalism: Liberalism was supressed -
What: The US and the USSR met. Agreements went back and forth for three years when Nixon signed the Stratigic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1).
Where: Holsinki, Finland
Effect on Cold War: Led to the end of the cold war.
Effect on liberalism: Offered protection. -
What: USSR`invaded Afghanistan to help the gov't fight against the Mujahideen.
Where: Afghanistan
Effect on Cold War: US won
Effect on Liberalism: Liberalism was spread, -
What: Trade union formed called Solidarity. Communist gov't had to negotiate and a election was held in 1989 where a liberal was elected.
Where: Poland
Effect on Cold War: Soviets lost control of poland.
Effect on Liberalism: Liberalism was embraced -
What: the falling of the wall dividing east and west Germany.
Where: East Germany
What effect it had: it was the signalling of the end of the iron curtain.
What effect did it have on liberalism: when the Berlin Wall fell, liberalism expanded into east Germany for the first time in many years. -
What: The leaders, Reagan and Gorbachev, became friends when the war ended.
Where: Everywhere
Effect on Cold War: Its over.
Effect on liberalism: The war was over there was no more need to fight to spread.
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