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Yalta Conference
-Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-Russia
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Potsdam Conference
-Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
-They met at Potsdam, Germany
-Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, and the Allied leaders agreed to meet over the summer at Potsdam to continue the discussions that had begun at Yalta.
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Hiroshima Bombing
What; US dropped atomic bomb on Japan
where; Japan
who United States bombed them on Truman's presidancy
impact on the cold war; to end world war ii and show off to Soviet Union -
Bombing of Nagasaki
What; US dropped atomic bomb on Japan
where; Japan
who United States bombed them on Truman's presidancy
impact on the cold war; to show off to Soviet Union their nuclear weapon -
Molotov Plan
What:The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
Where Soviet Union
Who The name was an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Effect; This aid allowed countries in Europe to stop relying on American aid, and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the USSR instead. -
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Truman Doctrine
-President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
-Took place in The united states
-Truman famously revealed to Stalin during the deliberations at Potsdam, the United States had just detonated the world's first atom bomb. -
Brussels Treaty
Signed between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as an expansion to the preceding year's defence pledge Created the common defence alliance. It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union. A goal of the treaty was to show that western European states could cooperate, thus encouraging the United States to play a role in the security of western Europe.
It was predicated on resisting communism and communist expansion.
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Marshall Plan
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. Proposed by the United States secretary of state General George C Marshall
Marshall proposed in a speech at Harvard University on that European nations create a plan for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic assistance the Marshall Plan reduced the influence and power of Communist parties in Western Europe. -
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Berlin Block aid
what: The first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
In Berlin Germany
Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the NATO. -
Soviet creation of nuclear weapon
What: Scientists of the Soviet Union were aware of the potential of nuclear weapons and had also been conducting research on the field. Started making nuclear weapons.
Where Soviet Union
who: Scientists were tasked to make nuclear bomb by Stalin
The nuclear arms race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for nuclear weapons superiority lasting throughout the Cold War. -
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Korean War
What: a war between North Korea and South Korea.
Where: North Korea and South korea border
Who: America and Soviet Union were behind it
By supporting South Korea, America was able to fight Communism without directly attacking Russia. The USSR, also, went to war because of the Cold War. It was a good enough excuse – the North Koreans invaded South Korea. -
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Fidel Castro taking over
Who: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister
What: the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Where; Cuba
Castro's new administration, coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. -
Stalin's Death
What; The death of Soviet revolutionary and political leader. Governing the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Who; Joseph Stalin
Where; Russia
Created more tension between allies. In 1955, Austria regained its sovereignty and became an independent, neutral nation after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country. -
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Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Included the Soviet Union, Albania Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members.The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. -
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Vietnam War
What: a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
Where: Vietman
Who:U.S. government
Soviet Union bribed Vietnam to turn communist the US feared for the worse and decided to enter the war. Soviets starved everyone that was a capitalist. -
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Hungarian Revolution
What: was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.
Where: Hungary
Who:uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
he 1956 Hungarian Revolution greatly influenced the Cold War with new beginnings and brought hope to a dark period of time. It was the first major anti- Soviet uprising in Eastern Europe, -
NORAD
what: North American Aerospace Defence Command a United States and Canada bi-national organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. Aerospace control includes ensuring air sovereignty and air defence of the airspace of Canada and the United States.
where: Colorado,US
Effect on the cold war: Provided protection for North America only. -
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Bay Of Pigs
What; a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506.
Who: Cuban dictator
Where: Bay of Pigs, Cuba
the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas. -
Creation Of The Berlin Wall
What: In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin. To separate east Berlin and west
Where: Berlin, Germany
Who: Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961
the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
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End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
What: a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
Where: Cuba
Who: US president John F. Kennedy he Soviet Union withdrew the warheads in exchange for Kennedy pulling its own missiles from Turkey -- but came awfully close to sparking World War III, a threat that forever changed Americans' perceptions of the Cold War. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
What; an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
Where; International
US and Soviet Union were competing on had more nuclear weapons -
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Afghanistan/ Soviet War
What: Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought a guerilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside.
Where: Afghanistan
Who:The mujahideen groups were backed by the United States
two countries fighting US and SU playing puppet master -
Solidarity in Poland
What; a Polish labour union that was founded on 17 September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa.
Where; Poland
who; Lech Wałęsa,
It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Shrunk soviet sphere -
Berlin Wall Falling
What; End of the tension between East and West Berlin
Where; Berlin Germany
Who; Berlin's communist party
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czechoslovakia revolution
what; a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia,
where Czechoslovakia
Who Czechs and Slovaks
the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
End of the Cold war
What; End of war between communist and capitalists aka Soviet Union and United States
Who; Mikhail Gorbachev
Where; The war ended everywhere the Soviet and US were fighting.
Gorbachev was a revolutionary leader for the USSR, as he was the first to promote liberalization of the political landscape and capitalist elements into the economy prior to this, the USSR had been strictly prohibiting liberal reform and maintained an inefficient centralized economy. Turning point for communism.
