Origins Of The Cold War Timeline

By Ethan.Hoehler
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    Yalta Conference

    The second wartime meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    Potsdam Conference

    The last of the meetings during WWII held by the “Big-Three” (American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin)

  • United Nations are Established

    A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established after World War II to prevent another such conflict.

  • Containment Policy/Iron Curtain

    The "Iron Curtain" was a term used to describe the metaphorical barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II separating communist Eastern Europe from the non-communist West.

  • Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine was an American policy whose purpose was to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War.

  • The Marshall Plan

    A plan that helped Europe rebuild its economy with assistance from the US of about $13 billion

  • The Berlin Airlift

    Surviving a harsh German winter, the airlift carried over two million tons of supplies in 270,000 flights.

  • Formation of NATO

    In 1949, further Communist expansion told the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).