Cold war

IB World History- Cold War

By IFKaram
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    Swadeshi Movement

    Proposed the eventual partition of Bengal; part of movement towards Indian independence- no consumption of English goods.
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    Russian Revolution

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    Bolshevik Revolution

    Actual seizure of power from the Bolshevik family within the greater Russian Revolution.

  • Jallianwala Massacre

    Golden Temple in Amritsar, people were not allowed to gather for publically; shot point blanc.

  • Proclamation of the USSR

    Contingent upon the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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    Salt March

  • 2nd Government of India Act

    Status of dominion (sim. to Australia).

  • Four Freedoms Speech

    Speech by Roosevelt, want, speech, worship, fear
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    Yalta Conference

    Theoretical beginning for the Cold War.
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    Truman in Office

    Truman Doctrine.

  • Creation of the United Nations

    Signing of the UN Charter, ratification on 24 October.

  • Division of the Koreas

    North (Russia) and South (USA).

  • End of World War II

    Taking into consideration the end of the war to be V-J day, and not V-E day.

  • X Article

    = Long Telegram

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

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    First Indo-China War

    French against Vietnamese forced; Viet Minh victory, provisional division of Vietnam in north and south; consolidation of the independence of Laos, Cambodia and VIetnam.

  • Truman Doctrine Speech

    Was what encouraged the creation of the Marshall Plan by general Marshall.

  • India/Pakistan Independence

  • Gandhi's Assassination

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    Marshall Plan

    Aid supplied to Greece and Turkey; plan supposed to last four years.
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    Berlin Blockade

  • Signing of NATO

  • Geneva Convention

    Laid the groundwork for humanitarian laws in the future.

  • Consolidation of the People's Republic of China

    End of Chinese Civil War; Mao Zedong comes into power with a communist regime.

  • NSC-68

    National Security Council Report 68
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    Korean War

    Proxy War, USA versus USSR; ends with an armistice.
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    Eisenhower in Office

    Planned the Bay of Pigs attack.

  • Stalin Dies

    Beginning of Khrushchev Era in Russia.
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    Khrushchev in Office

  • Domino Theory

    Domino Theory ImageFirst heard in an Eisenhower speech; "falling domino principle"; feared communism would get to India.
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    Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries ~ French defeat.

  • Signing of the Warsaw Pact

    Response to the creation of NATO by Western forces.
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    Vietnam War

    Resulted in a communist victory; America forced to retreat; also known as Second indo-China War.
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    Sino-Soviet Split

    Especially intensified during the 1970s.
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    Kennedy in Office

    Assassinated, hence his term ended earlier then expected.
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    Operation Mongoose

    Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuba.
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    Castro in Office

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    Cuban Missile Cris

    Brink of nuclear war during the Cold War period.

  • CMC, Declaration of Quarantine

    Day 8.

  • Independence of Bangladesh

    Previously: East Pakistan.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

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    War in Afghanistan

    Ongoing.