cold war timeline

  • Yalta Conference

    what: The big three Britain, US and the USSR met to re-draw the lines of Europe.
    Where: Yalta Ukraine

    Effect: Started the cold war because of the power struggle.
    Liberalism: Germany and Japan
  • Potsdam Conference

    What: Germany surrendered to the allies and the big three met in Potsdam Germany.
    Where:Potsdam Germany
    Effect: The US and Britain were openly Anti-communist and the Soviet union
    Liberalism: Germany lost there liberalism.
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    Marshall Plan

    What: The US secretary George Marshall announced a 13 billion dollar relief fund for the countries devastated by war.
    Where:European countries
    Effect:Created the spheres of communism and anti communism.
    Liberalism:The countries who had received money stayed anti communist.
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    Molotov Plan

    What: A system created by the soviet union in order to rebuild countries destroyed by war in Eastern Europe.
    Where:Over Eastern Europe.
    Effect:The countries that got money lost liberalism.
    Liberalism:Countries that joined lost liberalism.
  • Soviet Union creation nuclear weapons

    What: soviets started creating Nuclear weapons to show capitalist countries their power.
    Where: The soviet Union.
    Effect: Raised high tensions amongst the capitalist and communist countries.
    Liberalism: The capitalists lost sense of security since at any point the could get a nuclear bomb dropped on them.
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    Nato

    What: Capitalist countries joined to make an agreement that if and communist countries attacked they would all join in to fight.
    Where: all over the world
    effect:Created alliances
    Liberalism: all the countries that joined stayed secure and safe and stayed free.
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    Korean War

    What:President Truman gave forces to help south Korea defend the the invasion of south Korea to look tough against the communists.
    Where:Korean demilitarized zone.
    Effect:First time the US and Soviet Union had actual conflict in a proxy war.
    LIberalism:Gave South Korea liberal freedoms by defending their own territory.
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    Fidel Castro taking over

    What:Fidel lead a revolution to fight the Batista's in a guerilla war to take over Cuba.
    Where:Cuba
    Effect: Started off Cuba as a communist country.
    Liberalism: The Cubans had lost freedom due to the communist take over.
  • Stalins death

    What: Stalin had died he had a stroke.
    Where Kuntsevo Dacha.
    Effect: Communism had a bit of halt after his death.
    Liberalism: A period in time where rights were't being taken by the communists.
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    Warsaw Pact

    What: A treaty among all communist countries that if any capitalists attacked they would all join in.
    Where:All over the world.
    Effect: Stayed secure and communist.
    Liberalism: They lost liberalism.
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    Vietnam War

    What:Us sent troops over Vietnam help rid the spread of communism.
    Where: South and North Vietnam
    Effect: First time the US had fought own their own without allies, it was directly between the states and communist bloc.
    Liberalism: Vietnam lost liberalism.
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    Hungarian revolution

    What: Was a country wide revolution in hungary against the government of the Hungarian people's republic hungarian peoples policy.
    Where: Hungaria
    Effect: the revolution exposed the weakness of Eastern European communism.
    Liberalism: Hungary was able to be liberal again.
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    NORAD

    What: Its the North American Aerospace Defense command.
    Where: North America
    Effect: Satellites could see if missiles were coming.
    Liberalism: North America became more secure.
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    Bay of Pigs

    What: It was failed attack by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Castro out of power.
    Where:South Western coast of Cuba
    Effect:First big fail by United States in the Cold War.
    Liberalism: Cubans still didn't get freed from the communist government.
  • Creation of Berlin wall

    what:It was created by the German democratic republic to ensure the people couldn't leave soviet controlled East Berlin.
    Where: Berlin, Germany
    Effect: People in Eastern Germany were not allowed to leave.
    LIberalism: The people East Berlin lost liberal freedoms.
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    End of the Cuban missile crisis

    What:The Soviets tried sneaking missiles into Cuba to launch them into US cities.
    Where: Cuba
    Effect:Brought everyone to brinkmanship.
    Liberalism: all people lost sense of security to the scare of the missile crisis.
  • Nuclear arms treaty

    What: No development nuclear arms and no creation of them.
    Where: All over the world.
    Effect: Put people at ease.
    Liberalism: People no longer lived in complete fear.
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    Afghanistan/Soviet War

    What : wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
    Where: Afghanistan
    Effect: The Soviets never recover the financial loss and public relations loss.
    Liberalism: Afghanistan stayed liberal.
  • Berlin wall falling

    What: East and West germany were tearing down the wall.
    Where:Berlin
    Effect: The start of the falling of communism.
    Liberalism: East Germany had liberalism restored.