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Yalta Conference
Who: The Big Three (Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill)
What: WWII meeting between The Big Three which agreed on free elections for European countries.
Where: The Big Three met together at Yalta
Effect on Cold War: Granted Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe. -
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Potsdam Conference
Who: Harry Truman, Churchill and Clement Attlee
What: Negotiate terms such as reparations, restructure of Germany, and warnings sent to Japan.
Where: Potsdam, Germany
Effect on Cold War: Tension between S.U. and U.S. rise and the atomic bomb was brought up. -
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing
Who: Japan and the U.S.
What: the detonation of two nuclear weapons over to Japan
Where: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Effect on Cold War: pressured the Soviet to communicate with Eastern Europe and Germany. -
Molotov Plan
Who: created by the Soviet Union
What: rebuild Eastern European countries (politically and economically) that were aligned with the Soviet.
Where: Eastern Europe
Effect on Cold War: solidified the presence of the Soviet in Europe. -
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Truman Doctrine
Who: President Truman
What: The U.S. creates an alliance to counter the ideological opposite (The Soviet Union) and preventing them from expanding geopolitically.
Effect on Cold War: This caused the resistance against communism and helped with the formation of NATO. -
Brussels Treaty
Who: Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg signed the treaty
What: Alliance of Western European states
Where: signed in Paris
Effect on Cold War: It showed that western states could cooperate which encouraged the U.S. to provide security to Western Europe -
Marshall Plan
Who: President Truman and the U.S.
What: a plan to help countries that were affected by European war.
Where: Europe
Effect on Cold War: reduced communist agenda -
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Berlin Blockade
Who: Stalin
What: Roads, rail and canal transportation leading to West Berlin were blocked by Stalin.
Where: Berlin
Effect on Cold War: After the blockades were removed, countries that were neighbours with the Soviet-made sure that they maintained ties with the Soviets due to pressure. -
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Who: Many countries such as Canada, Belgium, France, Ireland etc.
What: a military alliance made for security against the Soviet Union
Effect on Cold War: strengthened the Western Allies -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear Weapons
Who: Soviet
What: First testing of nuclear weapons
Where: they tested the weapon in Kazakhstan
Effect on Cold War: this caused shock to the U.S. because they did not expect the Soviet to have this weapon yet. -
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Korean War
Who: North Korea vs. South Korea
What: the opposing ideologies of South and North Korea. One against the Soviet and the other one supporting it.
Where: Korea
Effects on Cold War: Korea became a battleground for the U.S. and the Soviet. -
Stalin's Death
Who: Stalin
What: Stalin’s death
Where: the Soviet
Effects on Cold War: the tension during the Cold War lessened but only for a temporary time. -
Warsaw Pact
Who: mainly the Soviet Union and Poland
What: defence treaty that was made for an alliance between communist countries against capitalist countries
Where: Warsaw, Poland
Effect on the Cold War: helped unite communist countries to work together. -
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Vietnam War
Who: Vietnam
What: Just like Korea, Vietnam was split into North and South. North being communist and the South supporting U.S.
Where: Vietnam
Effects on Cold War: Vietnam became a battleground between the U.S. and the Soviet. -
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Hungarian Revolution
Who: Hungarian people
What: A revolt of Hungarian people against the Soviet’s policies.
Where: Hungary
Effects on Cold War: Soviet won and the revolters lost. This gave another victory for the communists -
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
Who: Canada and the U.S.
What: air defence against Soviet bombers.
Effect on Cold War: helped with the security of North America against the Soviet. -
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Fidel Castro taking over
Who: Fidel Castro and Cuba
What: Cuba was ruled by Fidel Castro which changed the nation politically and economically.
Where: Cuba
Effect on Cold War: Cuba aligned with the Soviet which allowed the Soviet to place nuclear weapons in Cuba. -
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Bay of Pigs
Who: the U.S. supported Cuban exiles were the cause of the attack
What: A failed invasion lead by the U.S. to attack Cuba due to not enough support from the U.S. military. This caused the U.S. to stop trading with Cuba.
Where: Cuba
Effect on Cold War: This weakened the trust between Cuba and the U.S. and strengthened both Castro’s name and the alliance between the Soviet. -
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Creation of Berlin Wall
Who: West Berlin, East Berlin
What: A border was created to separate East and West Berlin due to differing allies.
Where: Berlin
Effect on Cold War: caused Hungarian people to revolt against Stalin’s ideologies which later on formed a new democratic state. However, this was quickly erased because the Soviet used force to maintain the pro-Soviet government. This gained the Soviet more power. -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who: Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev
What: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed on removing the missiles in Cuba
Where: Cuba
Effects on Cold War: This brought hope that Cuba and the U.S. would come together. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
Who: the U.S. and the Soviet
What: the prevention to remove the use of nuclear weapons and to promote cooperation.
Where: the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Effects on Cold War: This treaty limits the use of nuclear weapons tested by the U.S. and the Soviet. -
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Afghanistan/ Soviet War
Who: Soviet vs. Afghanistan
What: the invasion of the Soviet in Afghanistan which caused Afghanistan to fight back by using weapons dating back from WWI.
Where: Afghanistan
Effects on Cold War: Soviet soldiers are then lead to fighting Afghanistan’s insurgent force that included Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. -
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Solidarity in Poland
Who: Poland
What: the first Soviet nation to allow free elections.
Where: Poland
Effects on Cold War: Helped Poland distant itself from communism. -
Berlin Wall Falling
Who: East and West Berlin
What: The removal of the ideological barrier created between borders of East and West Berlin
Where: Berlin
Effects on Cold War: The wall was the symbol of the Cold War, this being destroyed can be seen as the end of the war. -
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Czechoslovakia Revolution
Who: Václav Havel and protestors
What: the transformation of Václav Havel into the President of a democratic Czechoslovakia. The pace was quickened by the Soviet.
Where: Czechoslovakia
Effects on Cold War: Czechoslovakia is another country to be transformed into a communist country because of the Soviet. -
End of the Cold War
Who: the U.S. and the Soviet (Mikhail Gorbachev)
What: The Soviet collapses, thus ending the war.
Effects on Cold War: The Soviet returned back to its previous state.