cold war timeline

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    soviet creation of nuclear weapons

    what: made nukes
    where: russia
    effect: deturance
    liberalism: made people scared of being blown up so less freedoms
  • Yalta conference

    what: britian, us, and ussr met in yalta ukraine to redraw the lines of europe
    where: ukraine
    effect: started cold war
    liberalism: germany and japan had no say
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    potsdam conference

    what:summer of 1945 the big three met in potsdam germany. where germany was divided
    where: germany
    effect: make the spheres
    liberalism: germany had no say
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    marshal plan

    what: giving money to countries so they become capitalist
    where: western europe
    effect: got countries to become capitalist
    liberalism: those countries that joined the marshal plan became liberal
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    molotov plan

    what: giving money to countries so they become communist
    where: western europe
    effect: got countries to become communist
    liberalism: those countries that joined the marshal plan became communist
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    nato

    what: safety and security alliance for capitalist countries
    where: north atlantic
    effect: safety and security

    liberalism: gave those countries peace and security
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    korean war

    what: a war in korea between the communist
    where:
    effects: capitalis sphere lost half of korea
    liberalism: half or korea lost freedoms
  • stalin's death

    what: stalin had a stroke and died
    where: moscow russia

    effect: started the liberalization of russia
    liberalism: russians started to get more freedoms
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    warsaw pact

    what: safety and security alliance for communist countries
    where: europe
    effect: safety and security

    liberalism: lose freedoms
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    vietnam war

    what: a war in vietnam to establish communism
    where: vietnam
    effect: vietnam became communist
    liberalism: lost freedoms
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    hungarian revolution

    what: getting rid of communism in hungry
    where: hungry
    effect: made hungry capitalist
    liberalism: gave hungarians freedoms
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    norad

    what: satellites that can detect missiles
    where: over north america
    effect: safety and security

    liberalism: gave those countries peace and security
  • fidel castro taking over

    what: fidel castro took over cuba
    where: cuba
    effect: cuba lost liberalism
    liberalism: cuba lost liberalism
  • bay of pigs

    what: a us failed landing operation on the southwestern side of cuba. they where trying to free the cubans
    where: cuba
    effect: us failed to free cuba
    liberalism: cuba lost freedoms
  • creation of the berlin wall

    what: laid down more then 30 miles of barbed wire though the middle of berlin and the east berlin citizens were forbidden to past into west berlin
    where: berlin
    effect: split of families
    liberalism: east berlin citizens had no say
  • end of the cuban missile crisis

    what: the soviet union and us agreed to turn the boats around
    where: cuba
    effect: decreasing tension
    liberalism: cuba remained socialist
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    nuclear arms treaties

    what: stopped making nuclear weapons
    where: the world
    effect: people where less scared
    liberalism: people felt more free
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    afghanistan/soviet war

    what: communist trying to take over afghanistan
    where: afghanistan
    effect: afghanistan remained capitalist
    liberalism: afghanistan kept there freedoms
  • berlin wall falling

    what: the destruction of the berlin wall
    where: berlin
    effect: symbolic breaking the iron curtain
    liberalism:
  • end of the cold war

    what: the end of the cold war
    where: the world
    effect: ended the cold war
    liberalism: gave people more freedom