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Hiroshima bombing/ Nagasak
Where: Hiroshima, Nagasak
Who: United States
What: According to Truman and others in his administration, the use of the atomic bomb was intended to cut the war in the Pacific short, avoiding a U.S. invasion of Japan and saving hundreds of thousands of American lives.
What did it had on liberalism: Less because inorder to save their people others had to lose their lives in the process -
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Truman Doctrine
Where: Greece and Turkey
Who: Truman
What: Truman created a doctrine to support anit-communist forces in Greece and Turkey. The policy was later expanded to support other countries who the US felt were hreatened by communism.
What effect did it had on liberalism: Less liberalism due to the fact that people were forced anti-communist in both Greece and Turkey -
Yalta Conference
Where: Yalta, Ukraine
Who: (USSR, Britain, USA)
What: The big three came to the conclusion that Germany would be divied into 4 after its unconditional surrender.
How did it effect Liberalism: More liberalism since the people were promised free elections. -
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Potsdam Conference
Where: Germany
Who: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Clement Attlee
What: After the Yalta Conference, the big three met in Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. And the death of Roosevelt occured and Truman was now president and they finished the Atomic bomb.
What effect it had on liberalism: Less liberalism because the Soviet now must enter the war and Germany has to pay $20 billion. -
soviet creation of nuclear weapons
Where: Soviet Union
Who: Joseph Stalin
What: to deter war because any nuclear war would escalate out of mutual distrust and fear, resulting in mutually assured destruction.
What did it had on liberalism: Less because the destruction of the world that nuclear detonation would cause prevented the United States and the Soviet Union from fighting each other directly. -
Molotov Plan
Who: Soviet Union
Where: Soviet Union
What: provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
What it had on liberalism: More because those countries that got aid had liberalism -
Berlin Block Aid
Where: Berlin
Who: Soviet Union
What: to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
What it had on liberalism: Less because the Soviets cut some 2.5 million civilians in the three western sectors of Berlin off from access to electricity, as well as food, coal and other crucial supplies -
The Brussels Treaty
Where: Brussels, Belgium
Who: Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
What: It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union
What did it had on liberalism: More because the 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. -
NATO
Where: North Atlantic
Who: Soviet and the US
What: Communism and the Soviet sphere influence while capitalist liberal democracy and the US sphere influence
What did it had on liberalism: More liberalism because it was guaranteeing the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. -
Korean War
Where: Korea
Who: North Korea and South Korea
What: President Truman ordered U.S. forces to South Korea to repulse the North's invasion
What did it had on liberalism: Less because North Korea fell into poverty and could not keep up with South Korea's economic pace. -
Stalin's Death
Where: Kuntsevo Dacha
Who: Joesph Stalin
What: He died
What did it has on liberalism: Before his death he was leaning towards liberalism but than he died. -
Warsaw Pact
Where: Warsaw, Poland
Who: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
What: The eight-member countries of the Warsaw Pact pledged the mutual defense of any member who would be attacked.
What did it had on liberalism: Less because the primary purpose of the pact was to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe. -
Vietnam War
Where: South Vietnam
Who: South Vietnam, North Vietnam, United States
What: The main reason the United States got involved in Vietnam was the purpose of doing everything possible to keep communism from spreading around world
What did it had on liberalism: Less because the Vietnam War severely damaged the U.S. economy -
hungrian Revo
Hungarian People's Republic
Imre Nagy
The goals of the Hungarian Revolution were typical of other revolutions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War: to end or limit communist rule
More because communist would end -
Period: to
Marshall Plan
Where: Europe
Who: George Marshall
What: George Marshall announced a 13 billion dollar plan to help the European countries who were devasted by war. This plan was bigger than the Truman Doctrine.
What did it had on liberalism: Less liberalism because the plan contributed greatly to the rapid renewal of the western European chemical, engineering, and steel industries. -
NORAD
Where: Colorado Springs
Who: The US and Canada
What: (NORAD) is a bi-national United States and Canadian organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America.
What did it had on liberalism: More since it's a binational military command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning. -
Creation Of The Berlin Wall
Where: East Germany
Who: German Democratic Republic
What: to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies.
What is it had on liberalism: Less because the wall stopped people leaving East Berlin, preventing further damage to the economy -
Bay Of Pigs
Where: Cuba
Who: Kennedy
What: The United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. They failed miserably.
What it had on liberalism: Less because 1500 Cuban Exiles from Cuba invaded at the Bay of Pigs and they were all killed or taken prisoner. -
End of the Curban missile crisis
Where: United States
Who: Nikita Khrushchev
What: Khrushchev sent a message to Kennedy in which he offered to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for a promise by U.S. leaders not to invade Cuba.
What did it had on liberalism: More because Kennedy offered to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for a promise by U.S. leaders not to invade Cuba -
Period: to
Afghanistan Soviet War
Where: Afghanistan
Who: Afghanistan & Soviet
What: The USSR invades Afghanistan to help the Marxist Afghan government against the Mujahedeen.
What did it had on liberalism: Less because the US were supporting the rebles by trying to overthrow the communist government and to prevent the spread of communism but in the process it was less liberalism for thr Afghan people. -
Solidarity in Poland
Gdańsk Shipyard
Lech Wałęsa
using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change
More because the workers demanded civil rights including the rights of freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion -
Czechoslovakia revo
Czechoslovakia
Alexander Dubček and Václav Havel
the most prosperous and politically stable state in eastern Europe. -
Berlin wall falling
Berlin wall
communist East Germany
The fall of the Wall marked the first critical step towards German reunification -
End of cold war
Afghanistan
the Soviet Union
free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe
More because it finally came to an end and there will be more freedom -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
Moscow, Russia; London, UK; Washington DC, United States
the United Nations in New York
to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
More because people become safe and won't be as scared