The Cold War

By Juliet.c
  • Percentages Agreement - Moscow

    Percentages Agreement - Moscow

    Between Stalin and Churchill and written on a napkin
    Split up Europe into spheres of influence
    Satlin got most of eastern Europe
    Roosevelt wasn't included
    RELATIONS

  • USSR request US Loan

  • Yalta

    Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
    Plan for the division of Germany
    Stalin agreed to fight Japan

  • Ceasefire in Greek Civil War

    Royalist vs communists
    US & UK supported the royalists
    USSR supported the communists
    Showed the difference in ideology between the powers
    POLITICAL

  • Roosevelt dies and Truman takes over

    Truman had a stronger stance of communism than Roosevelt
    He was also new and less experienced at the job giving Stalin the upper hand
    RELATIONS

  • German Surrender

    Ends the War in Europe but there is still fighting in Japan
    MILITARY

  • UN Charter agreed on in San Francisco

  • Potsdam

    Stalin, Truman, Attlee
    Decisions were postponed until after Japan's defeat
    Attlee was focused on domestic affairs and Britain's colonies
    Truman didn't know US foreign policy or the Manhatten project

  • Stalin makes a speech announcing a 5-year plan to prepare to fight capitalism

    Basically a decleration of war
    RELATIONS POLITICAL

  • Hiroshima

    Made Stalin uneasy
    Truman didn't tell Stalin about their plans to drop the bomb
    MILITARY

  • Nagasaki

    MILITARY

  • Japan Surrenders

  • Kennan's Long Telegram

    Advice on US actions towards USSR
    Avoid direct military confrontation
    positive propaganda towards capitalism