Postwar (1945-1965)

By mado55

  • Tehran Conference

    [FDR + Churchill (CP) + Stalin]
    USSR will only liberate eastern Europe

  • Bretton-Woods Conference

    [44 Alied nations]
    1. World Trade Organization - eliminate tariffs + promote free trade
    2. World Bank - loans to less-developed countries
    3. International Monetary Fund - loans to countries in crisis

  • Yalta Conference

    [FDR + Churchill (CP) + Stalin]
    1. establish United Nations
    2. division of Germany → UK + FR + US + USSR
    3. Declaration of Liberated Europe - countries may hold free elections + choose government
    4. USSR will declare war on Japan

  • Potsdam Conference

    [Truman + Attlee (LP) + Stalin]
    1. disarmament + demilitarization + denazification of Germany
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    Nuremberg Trials

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    Fourth Republic of France

    Parliament + elected Premier

  • Yugoslav-Soviet Split

    Communist Yugoslavia [Tito] splits from the Soviet Union

  • Czechoslovakia coup d'état

    Communist Party takes power in Czechoslovakia

  • Marshall Plan

    plan for rebuilding Europe after World War II

  • Truman Doctrine

    policy to help Greece + Turkey to prevent USSR / communist influence

  • Berlin Airlift

    [Berlin Airlift]
    1. Soviet Union blocked Western access to Berlin after introduction of new Deutsche mark to West Berlin
    2. Allies' airplanes drop supplies to Berlin

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

    anti-USSR military alliance
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    Federal Republic of Germany

    [West Germany] - capitalism, democracy
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    German Democratic Republic

    [East Germany] - communism

  • European Coal & Steel Company

    Belgium + West Germany + Luxembourg + France + Italy + Netherlands

  • Stalin dies

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    Khrushchev [USSR]

    [Communist Party]
    1. “destalinization” / “the Thaw”
    2. attempted to reform collectivized agriculture → forced out by the Party
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    Algerian War

    Algeria gains independence from France

  • Warsaw Pact

    [USSR / eastern bloc] alliance

  • Austrian Independence Treaty

    Austrian independence from USSR
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    Vietnam War

    North Vietnam [communist - USSR] VS South Vietnam [capitalist - US]

  • Poznań Riots

    [Poland]
    workers' protests against Soviet-Polish government

  • Suez Crisis

    invasion of Egypt by Israel + UK + France

  • Hungarian Revolution

    [Hungarian People's Republic]
    revolt against USSR-influenced government

  • Treaty of Rome

    [Belgium + France + Italy + Luxembourg + Netherlands + West Germany]
    1. European Economic Community - "Common Market”
    2. European Atomic Energy Community

  • Fifth Republic of France

    [constitutional republic]
    President Charles DeGualle [UDR] (1959-1969)

  • Berlin Wall

    created

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    [confrontation between US and USSR] / [Bay of Pigs]
    1. USSR ballistic missiles deployed to Cuba
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    Ludwig Erhard [CDP]

    [Christian Democratic Party]
    Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany [West Germany]
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    Brezhnev [USSR]

    [Communist Party]
    1. reinstated Stalin policies

  • Prague Spring

    [Prague Spring]
    1. Dubček elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia [KSČ]
    2. attempted to reform - more rights for citizens
    3. USSR invaded to prevent reform

  • Brezhnev Doctrine

    the Soviet Union had the right to use military force to maintain the rule of Communist Party in nearby countries
    1. justified USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia during Prague Spring
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    Willy Brandt [SPD]

    [Social Democratic Party]
    Chancelor of Federal Republic of Germany [West Germany]
    1. Ostpolitik - policy of economic friendship / trade with Eastern Bloc + GDR
    2. Détente - ease of tensions b/w US + USSR

  • Helsinki Accords

    attempt to improve relations b/w eastern bloc and western bloc