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Where: Yalta, Ukraine
Who: the big three (USSR,Britain,USA)
What: devided Germany into 4 countries, and the USSR promised free election
What effect did it had on liberalism: More liberalism as there were promised free elections. -
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Where: Potsdam, Germany
Who: The Big Three (USSR,Britain,USA)
What: They confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany
What effect it had on cold war: The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand
What effect it had on liberalism: The Soviet Union had established Communist Friendly countries that they liberated in 1945 -
Where: Hiroshima, Japan
Who: The United States
What: The United States detonated nuclear weapons over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, respectively.
What effect it had on the cold war: The intention was to force Japan to surrender, thus avoiding a long war in the Pacific.
What effect it had on the liberalism: -
Where: Nagasaki, Japan
Who: The United States
What: caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II. It razed and burnt around 70 per cent of all buildings and caused an estimated 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, along with increased rates of cancer and chronic disease among the survivors.
What effect it had on the cold war: The intention was to force Japan to surrender, thus avoiding a long war in the Pacific.
What effect it had on the liberalism: -
Where: Eastern Europe
Who: the Soviet Union
What: Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the Soviet Union instead.
What effect it had on cold war: states to reorganize their trade to the USSR instead. -
Where: Greece and Turkey
Who: President Harry S. Truman
What: the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What effect it had on cold war: It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from détente (a relaxation of tension) to a containment of Soviet expansion
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Western Europe
Who: George Marshall
What: to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the effect it had on cold war: effectively taken control of much of central and eastern Europe and established its satellite republics as communist nations
What effect it had on liberalism: encouraged the development of liberal-democratic systems of government in Europe. -
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 effect it had on cold war: Creating a collective defense alliance. -
Where: West Berlin, Germany
Who: the Soviet Union
What: the Soviets cut some 2.5 million civilians in the three western sectors of Berlin off from access to electricity
What effect it had on the cold war: as well as food, coal and other crucial supplies. -
Where: Brussels
Who: the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations
What: the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
What effect it had on the cold war: NATO forces provided a frontline deterrence against the Soviet Union and its satellite states
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan
Who: Soviet Union
What: The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
What effect it had on the cold war:
What effect it had on the liberalism: -
Where: Korea
Who: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
What: when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea.
What effect it had on cold war: the first time that the two superpowers , the United States and the Soviet Union, had fought a 'proxy war ' in a third country.
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Kuntsevo Dacha
Who: Joseph Stalin
What: suffering a stroke
What effect it had on the cold war: Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw
What effect it had on the liberalism: -
Where: Warsaw, Poland
Who: the Soviet Union
What: The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty
What effect it had on cold war: a target of nationalist hostility in Poland and Hungary -
Where: Vietnam
Who: Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
What: More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed
What effect it had on cold war: created tension and fear between the US and the USSR.
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Hungarian People's Republic
Who: Soviets
What: spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956.
What effect it had on cold war: Soviet troops attacked en masse
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Peterson Space Force Base in El Paso County, near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Who: joint command the air forces of Canada and the United States.
What: A binational military command responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning.
What effect it had on cold war: selecting radars, tethered and mobile -
Where: Cuba
Who: Fidel Castro
What: Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. Adopting a Marxist–Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere.
What effect it had on the cold war: Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis -- a defining incident of the Cold War -
Where: Cuba
Who: Fidel Castro
What: The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
What effect ih had on cold war: the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
What effect it had on liberalism: The attack was an utter failure. -
Where: East Germany
Who: the German Democratic Republic
What: The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
What effect it had on the cold war: It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin.
What effect it had on the liberalism: The wall, which had stood as a symbol of the Cold War and had physically ... Liberal democracy is as far away today as it was in 1989. -
Where: Cuba
Who: Premier Nikita Khrushchev
What: a 1-month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What effect it had on the cold war: It also may have helped mitigate negative world opinion regarding the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Moscow, Soviet Union
Who: the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union
What: The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
What effect it had on cold war: billions of dollars trying to build up huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
What effect it had on liberalism: Liberals also turn to other nuclear weapons treaties to verify the minimal effects it has on nuclear proliferation in the long term. -
Where: Afghanistan
Who: Soviet Union
What: The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside
What effect it had on cold war: the war created a breeding ground for terrorism and the rise of Osama bin Laden.
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: Gdańsk, Poland
Who: Lech Wałęsa
What: Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change.
What effect it had on cold war: Solidarity's influence led to the intensification and spread of anti-Communist ideals and movements throughout the countries of the Eastern Bloc, weakening their Communist governments.
What effect it had on liberalism: -
Where: East Berlin, East Germany West Berlin, West Germany
Who: the German Democratic Republic
What: The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin.
What effect it had on cold war: the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. -
Where: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Who: Alexander Dubcek
What: was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989.
What effect it had on the cold war:
What effect it had on the liberalism: -
Where: Soviet Union
Who: the Soviet Union
What: the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.
What effect it had on the cold war: Its downfall increased the United States' influence as a global power and created an opportunity for corruption and crime in Russia.
What effect it had on the liberalism: