Cold War

By Emma_newman

  • Russian Revolution

    • exploitation of the proletariat -modified Leninism
    • Stalin developed a cult of personality

  • Pleiku incident

    vietcong attacked army barracks and a US helicopter base

  • Percentages agreement

    • Churchill aimed to control soviet expansion
    • met in Moscow
    • USSR 90% in Romania -Britain 90% in Greece -Hungary 50/50
  • Period: to

    Yalta Conference

    Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
    - interallied cooperation
    - agreed on: Germany would be divided into four zones, UN formally ratified, USSR gain land from Poland, declaration on liberated Europe
    -Roosevelt/Churchill: long term cooperation, UN, Germany's reconstruction, IMF
    -Stalin: USSR security granted through spheres of influence, Germany to remain weak, economic reconstruction at Germany's expense

  • deterioration in Vietnam

    -NLF mission in Moscow
    -China provides military supplies to china
    -PAVN moved down the Ho Chi Minh trail
    -rise in anti - American feeling
    -ARVN lost moral

  • OPLAN 34A

    • covert action
    • designed to force Hanoi to desist from its aggressive policies -increased number of military advisors

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    • attack on US naval vessel -presented the president with the power to take whatever action he felt was necessary to resist any armed attacks on US forces and to prevent further aggression