Cold war

  • Yalta

    what: a meeting between the big three to decide what happens to Germany
    where: Yalta, Ukraine
    effect: started the cold war
    liberalism: Germany had none
  • potsdam confrence

    what: a meeting between the three allies to reach a post-war settlement
    where: Potsdam, Germany
    effects: Big Three agreed to partition Germany into three occupying zones.
    Liberalism:Germany none
  • Molotov Plan

    What: was a system created by the soviet union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe.
    where: Eastern Europe
    effect: permitted European countries to quit dependent on American aid, allowing Molotov Plan countries to transfer their trade to the Soviet Union instead.
    Liberalism:
  • Marshall plan

    what: During World War II, the Marshall plan was a United States program that provided assistance to Western Europe following the war's damage.
    Where: western Europe
    effect:led to major changes in European economy and brought large investment to the region.
    Liberalism: people lost choice
  • NATO

    What: unite and strengthen the military defense of the Western Partners in the face of a possible attack on western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Allied Forces allies
    Where: western Europe
    effect: Nato was protecting its members from potential Soviet Union attacks. Lots of new security risks have arisen.
    Liberalism: All the countries that are part of it are all freedom.
  • soviet creation of Nuclear weapons

    what:The weapons were placed in Cuba by the Soviet Union to prevent a nuclear war.
    where:Semipalatinsk
    effect: prompted the United States and the Soviet Union to negotiate arms reductions.
    Liberalism:
  • Korean War

    what:began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Border and invaded the non-communist Republic of South Korea.
    Where:Korea (Northand South)
    effect:The war was terrible for Korea as a whole, eliminating the majority of the country's industries.
    LIberalism: South Korea, the United States, and participating U.N. also Japan surrendered.
  • Stalin's immediate legacy

    what:He suffered a major hemorrhagic stroke in his left hemisphere of the brain.
    where: Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union
    effect: Stalin's immediate legacy
    liberalism: a lot of countries get there power back
  • Warsaw pact

    what: cooperation of socialist and democratic republics in Central and Eastern Europe.
    where: Warsaw, Poland
    Effect: provided for a united military command as well as the comprehensive capacity to increase the Soviet control over the other member countries.
    Liberalism: prevent Central and Eastern Europe from being used as a base for its enemies.
  • Vietnam War

    what: The Vietnam War was a lengthy, expensive, and controversial battle that pitted North Vietnam's communist government against South Vietnam and its main ally, the US.
    where:North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam,principal ally, the United States.
    effect: staggering death toll.
    Liberalism: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. upward of a million killed by wounds, disease and malnutrition
  • Hungarian Revolution

    what: From October 23 to November 10, 1956, a spontaneous nationwide revolution against Hungary's Communist government and its Soviet-imposed policies took place across the country.
    where:Hungary
    effect: Thousands of Hungarians were murdered or injured, and about a quarter-million fled the nation.
    LIberalism: the HUngary had none
  • NORAD

    what: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was formed in 1957, during the height of the Cold War. The air forces of Canada and the U.S. are now under joint military control.
    Where: It was placed under the joint command of the air forces of Canada and the United States.
    where: Colorado Springs
    effect: provides more continental security for both countries than they could achieve on their own.
    Liberalism: All the countries that are part of it are all freedom.
  • Bay of Pigs

    what:In April 1961, a group of Cuban exiles landed on Cuba's southern coast, organised and sponsored by the US Central Intelligence Agency, in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
    where: Cuba
    effect:Operation Mongoose was part of a plan to sabotage and destabilize the Cuban government and economy, including the possibility of assassinating Castro.
    liberalism: Cuba had none
  • Creation of the Berlin wall

    what: to prevent the people of East Berlin from fleeing to German Forces, which were under Soviet rule.
    where: East Germany
    effect: It put an end to the conflicts between the superpowers in Berlin because it was very difficult to leave afterward.
    Liberalism: Environmental and public health effects
  • Fidel Castro taking over

    what: The United States tried to overthrow Castro's government by assassination, economic embargo, and counter-revolution.
    Where: cuba
    effect:Following the revolution, Castro's administration began a program of nationalisation, press monopolisation, and political consolidation that changed Cuba's economy and civic life.
    LIberalism: The United States had none
  • End of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    what:The US promised not to invade Cuba, while the Soviets agreed to remove all missiles from the island nation.
    where: United States
    effect: political isolation
    liberalism: cuba had none but the US pledged not to invade them.
  • Nuclear Arms Treaties

    what: The NPT is a landmark treaty which aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology around the world.
    where:Geneva, Switzerland
    effect: a greater chance of war
    Liberalism: India, Israel, Pakistan, and South Sudan.
  • Afghanistan/soviet war

    what: The Soviet–Afghan War was a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army in the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside.
    where:Afghanistan
    effect: The health of Afghans is impacted by poverty, hunger, inadequate sanitation, a lack of access to health care, and environmental deterioration.
    Liberalism: Afghanistan had none
  • Berlin Wall falling

    what: the first step toward reunification of Germany
    where: West Berlin from surrounding East Germany
    effect: weakened the East German administration, which was already in a difficult spot.
    liberalism:Germany had none
  • End of the Cold war

    what: The Soviet Union formally dissolved itself from existence in 1991 after 25 years of Soviet domination.
    where: Eastern Europe
    effect: His rise to power signals a new age of reformation (restructuring) and liberalization (openness) 
    Liberalism: Many countries got freedom like, eastern Europe and America.