Origins of the cold war.

By Skydiddy

  • Tehran Conference

    Roosevelt did not object to UUSR absorbing part of eastern poland as he could not publicly alienate Polish American votes (7 million votes at that time)

  • Percentages agreement

    USSR to have 90 percent influence in Romania and 75 percent influence in Bulgaria. Roosevelt was not present but was briefed on it. He did not openly oppose it
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    Origins of cold war timeline

  • Yalta agreement

    US, Britain rejects revision of polish easten border and demands inclusion of london poles inside lublin committe and free polish elections to be held. Stalin signs declaration of liberated europe but does not abide by it. Led roosevelt, a perennial optimist to doubt possibility of cooperation for the first time

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    6 billion loan request from USSR met with conditions by the US, led to soviets refusal to join IMF and World Bank signalling the beginning of economic schism

  • Atomic Diplomacy

    Truman offered stalin information about atomic bomb in return for reorganisation of soviet controlled governments in bulgaria. Soviets refused and instead completed their own atomic programme in 1949 which accelerated the start of a nuclear arms race

  • German Question

    The handling of the german question by the powers led to the division of Germany that marked a similar division in europe

  • Marshall plan

    Following up on the Truman doctrine, the Marshall plan's primary motive was poltical and aimed to contain communism. The soviets were initially willing to join as seen by the 100 man delegation headed by molotov but soon realised it was an attempt to create an American economic empire in Eastern Europe. This cemented the ecnomic schism in europe leading the soviets to create their own version, the molotov plan which divided europe in an economic bloc

  • NATO

    Began the military split as seen by the formation of the warsaw pact in may 1955 which formlised it.

  • The Berlin Blockade

    Russia blocked the roads and rail routes to berlin, leading the US and Britain to fly more than 200000 flights to Berlin in 320 days and deliver vital supplies of food and coal to 2.2 million Berliners. It came close to the first armed clash between the two sides and effectively split germany into two states of east and west;