Origins of the Cold War

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  • Non-Aggression Pact between Stalin & Hitler

  • Theran Conference at Theran, Iran.

    Attended by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.

  • D-day

    Also known as the Normandy landings which was the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. As early as 1942, Roosevelt already promised an opening of the second front but Britain & America delayed an invation of Normandy until D-Day.

  • Bretton Wood Conference

    Stalin agreed to join the Interantional Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

  • Lublin Committee was oficially proclaimed.

    Stalin exploited the Red Army's occupation of Poland to set up a pro-Soviet government which is also known as the Polish Committee of National Liberation.

  • Informal percentage agreement

    An agreement between Soviet premier Joseph Stalin and British prime minister Winston Churchill during the Fourth Moscow Conference on October 1944, about how to divide various European countries into spheres of influence.

  • Soviet asked for a $6 billion loan from the US.

    US demanded Soviets to open up Eastern European markets to US manufactured goods, in return for the loan.

  • Yalta Conference

  • Franklin Roosevelt died.

    Vice President Harry S. Truman took over.

  • Termination of Lend-Lease by the US without notice

  • US successful testing of atomic bomb

  • Potsdam Conference

  • USSR made a $1 billion loan request

    USSR made a furter request for a loan which was mysteriously lost by the State department.

  • 50,000 US marines were sent to Northern China

    In order to secure key communications centres and road and rail ways, and to help Nationalist armies in the area.

  • Deadline for membership of IMF & World Bank passed without the Soviets joining

  • George F. Kennan's Long Telegramme

  • Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech

  • General Clay stopped the sending of reperations from US to Soviets zone.

  • All negotiations over loands between US & USSR ended

  • Clifford-Elsey Report

    Presented to Truman in Sept.

  • US change in plans for Germany

    From destruction to reconstruction

  • Truman Doctrine

    Financial aid to Greece and Turkey. Marks the start of conttainment.

  • Marshall Plan announced

  • Molotov Plan and Cominform established

  • Czech Coup

  • Marshall Plan approved by Congress

  • Treaty of Brussels

    Military alliance that included Britain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium)

  • Introduction of Deutche Mark in West Germany + Start of Berlin Blockade

  • Establishment of Comecon

  • Formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

  • End of Berlin Blockade

  • West G. joins NATO --> Formation of Warsaw Pact