The Cold War - How did the Cold War develop? 1943-56

By Daisy Willans

  • The Grand Alliance

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    President Roosevelt

  • The Tehran Conference

  • Communists take over Albania

  • Nagy becomes Hungarian Minister of Agriculture

  • The Yalta Conference

  • Roosevelt dies

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    President Truman

  • Marshall Tito took over Yugoslavia

  • The Potsdam Conference

  • America drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

  • The United Nations

    Formed to bring international peace.

  • Communists win Hungarian elections

  • Communists win Bulgarian elections

  • The Long Telegram

  • Communists elected in Czechoslovakia

  • Novikov's Telegram

  • Communists elected in Romania

  • Bizonia formed

    The British and American zones of Germany operated as one.

  • Communists elected in Poland

  • The Truman Doctrine

    The doctrine stated that the world had a choice between communist tyranny and democratic freedom. America had a responsibility to fight for liberty wherever it was threatened and would send troops and economic resources to helped governments threatened by communism. Communism should not be allowed to grow and gain territory.

  • Trizonia formed

    The collaboration of the French British and American zones of western Germany.

  • The Marshall Plan

    General Marshall announced this plan at Harvard University.

  • Cominform established

  • The Deutschmark became the official currency of Trizonia

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    The Berlin Blockade

  • Yugoslavia expelled from Cominform

    Due to worsened relations between Tito and Stalin as Tito supported the communists in the Greek Civil War.
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    Rakosi's dictatorship

  • Comecon established

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) formed

  • The Federal Republic of Germany (FDR)

  • USSR tests its first nuclear bomb

  • The German Democratic Republic (GDR)

  • Nagy excluded from the Communist Party

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    Nagy is Hungarian Prime Minister

  • Period: to

    President Eisenhower

  • The Warsaw Pact formed

  • Khrushchev's Secret Speech

  • Rakosi forced out of power

  • Budapest riots

  • Nagy announces his reforms

    These reforms included Hungary leaving the Warsaw Pact and free elections.

  • Soviet troops invade Hungary

    200,000 Soviet troops and 1,000 tanks.

  • Nagy executed