the Cold War

By rosaellenambler

  • bolshevik revolution

    monarchy abolished and communist regime started. USSR created
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    tehran conference

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    Bretton woods conference

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    Iran crisis

  • Poland liberated by USSR

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    yalta conference

  • Roosevelt dies

  • hitler commits suicide

  • VE Day

  • succesful test of the US atomic bomb

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    potsdam conference

  • hiroshima bomb

  • russia declares war on Japan

  • bomb on Nagasaki

  • VJ Day

  • the long telegram

  • Iron curtain speech

  • Communists takeover Poland

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    Paris peace conference

  • novikov telegram

  • Bizonia created

  • Truman doctrine- active role in greek civil war

  • Marshall plan announced

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    London conference of western powers

  • Final package of Marshall plan- aid starts to rollout

    $13.5 bn to 16 countries

  • West German constitution created

    approved early 1949

  • Berlin Blockade starts

    USSR blocked all road and rail links to western zones and Berlin in order to force the US out, in response to Bizonia and the new currency- USSR wanted a unified communist Germany instead.
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    Berlin Airlift

  • Nato created

  • Berlin blockade end