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Korean war
when: June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
who: north korea and south korea
what: conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
where: in korea
how it affected liberalism: north korea and south drew new bordes between them and granted south korea additional toettory and demilzeriting the zone between the two nations -
Yalta
where: yalta ukraine
who: the big three (USSR, britain and usa
when: February 4–11, 1945
what: divide germany into four countries and the USSR promised free elections to liberal countries
what effect it had on liberalism: more liberalism as there were promised free elections -
Post Dam conference
who: the big three- Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
when: July 17–August 2, 1945)
where: Potsdam, Germany
what: They gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had agreed to an unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier
How it effected liberalism: failed to settle most of the important issues at hand -
Hiroshima bombing
when: august 6, 1945
where: Hiroshima
who: americans and the japanese
what: the americans dropped a bomb over japanese city and killed 80,000 people
how it affected liberalism: get the Japanese to surrender quickly -
Bombing of Nagasaki
what: The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb device on August 9, 1945, caused terrible human devastation and helped end World War II.
when: August 9, 1945
who: Hiroshima
where: Hiroshima
how it affected liberalism: USA detonated two atomic bombs -
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: soviet union
when:1947
how it effected liberalism: they were expanding their sphere of influence -
The Truman doctrine
who: Greece and Turkey
where: in Greece and Turkey
what:to establish that the United States would support a democratic nation under threat from an internal or external authoritarian force
how it effected liberalism: it effected liberalism more because it put an ending to WW1 in the pacific -
The Marshall Plan
what: providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II
who: President Harry Truman
when:1948
where: western europe following the devastation of World War II.
how it effected liberalism: encouraged the development of liberal-democratic systems of government in europe -
The Brussels Treaty
who: Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
what: creating a collective defense alliance
where: Brussels
how it effected liberalism: It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union -
NATO
what: is a political and military group with the goal of ensuring its members' freedom and security through political and military methods.
where: North Atlantic
who: USA
when: April 4, 1949, Washington, D.C., United States
how it effected liberalism: The formation of NATO meant that the USA could place weapons in member states -
Berlin Blockade
who: the soviet union
what: an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
when:Jun 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949
where: west Berlin
how it affected liberalism: 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 -
Soviet creation of Nuclear weapons
what: the Soviets started experimenting with nuclear technology in 1943, and first tested a nuclear weapon in August 1949.
where: the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
when: 1949
who: Joseph Stalin
how if affected liberalism: thrust the world into the atomic age -
Stalin's death
what: he died of a massive heart attack
who: Stalin
when:1953
where: the Kuntsevo Dacha
how it effected liberalism: a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions. -
Warsaw Pact
what: a military treaty and association of E European countries
who: the Soviet Union
where: Warsaw, Poland
when: 1955
how it affected liberalism: a military alliance of European communist states meant to counter NATO. -
Vietnam War
what: pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States
where: South Vietnam
when: Nov 1, 1955 – Apr 30, 1975
who: Vietnam
how it affected liberalism: the staggering death roll -
Hungarian Revolution
what:was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government of Hungary and its Soviet imposed policies
where: Hungarian
when: lasting from October 23 until November 10, 1956.
who: Hungarian People's
how it affected liberalism: Hungary exposed the weaknesses of Eastern European communism -
NORAD
what: a bi-national command, centralizing operational control of continental air defenses against the threat of Soviet bombers.
where: US ( Colorado Springs, Colorado)
when:1957
who: North American
how it affected liberalism: bi-national command, centralizing operational control of continental air defenses against the threat of Soviet bombers. -
Bay of pigs
who: Fidel Castro
what: the Cuban-exile invasion force
where: the south coast of Cuba
how it affected liberalism: he United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government -
Creation of Berlin the wall
what: keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state
when: August 13, 1961
where: East Germany
who:the German Democratic Republic
how it affected liberalism: The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin. It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin. -
Fidel Castro taking over
what: Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011
when: 1961
where: Cuba
who: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
how it affected liberalism: cuba became a one party communist state -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
what: was an increasing buildup of nuclear weapons that continued until the end of the Cold War
when: October 16, 1962 – October 28, 1962
who: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
where: Cuba.
how to affected liberalism: helped to thaw Cold War relations between the USA and the USSR -
Nuclear Arms Treaty
what: is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
where:Moscow, Russia; London, UK; Washington DC, United States
who:
when: 1 July 1968
how it affected liberalism: disarmament and arms control highly complex and problematic -
Solidarity in poland
what: Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression.
where: Gdańsk, Poland
when:August 31, 1980
who:
how it affected liberalism: was crucial in showing other Eastern European countries the way to free themselves from communism -
Afghanistan soviet war
what: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
when:Dec 25, 1979 – Feb 15, 1989
where:Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
who:Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army
how it affected liberalism: an estimated one million civilians were killed -
Czechoslovakia revolution
what: Soviets got angry, Warsaw
pact allies invaded.
when: 17 November – 29 December 1989
where: Czechoslovakia
who: Alexander Dubcek
how it affected liberalism: successfully stopped Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring liberalisation, reforms and strengthened the authority of the authoritarian wing within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia -
Berlin Wall falling
what: the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the Cold War
where: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
who: Communist Party
when: November 9, 1989
how it effected liberalism: wall stopped people leaving East Berlin -
End of the Cold war
what: an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
where: Europe
when: December 3, 1989
who: the Soviet Union
how to affected liberalism: the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened