The Cold War

By Juana Dougall

  • Yalta Agreement

    Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met.

  • Roosevelt dies

  • US new president - Harry Truman.

    An agresive and decisive man.

  • Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico, US

    The US got revenged and send missiles to Hiroshima and Nagazaki, Japan, August 1945.

  • Breakdown of the Grand Alliance

  • Neither the Western powers nor the USSR were in economic and political reconstruction.

  • France, a permanent member of the Security Council.

    After the creation of the United Nations, In 1945 they decided that France should became a permanent member of the Security Council too.

  • Neither the Western powers nor the USSR were in economic and political reconstruction

  • Creation of the United Nations

    They decided that France should became a permanent member of the Security Council too

  • The Soviets agreed to the establishment of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.

    This agreement broke down in 1946 when the US rejected it because it had no ensurenment that all nuclear weapons would be destroyed.

  • The creation of the Socialist Unity Party was raised in February 1946, in the Eastern Germany

  • The Soviets increased Eastern Germany´s industrial production

    They have seen Germany reconstructing along capitalist lines.
    Germany should pay 10 billon euros to the USSR in reparations according the Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.

  • The creation of Bizonia, that according to the US, it would be an economic prosperity to Germany.

    After the Moscow conference, The Soviets made an effort to destroy Bizonia.
    Marked the beggining of the Cold War

  • The Paris peace treaties were concluded.

  • The US Congress approved a program for 5 billion euros as the first instalment for Marshall Plan aid.

  • the Eastern Europe had fallen under Soviet control, except Finland. Their priority was to prevent communism to spread over Europe.

  • Truman doctrine of containing

    Marked the beggining of the Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

    Marked the beggining of the Cold War.

  • Second London Conference

  • The division of Germany

  • Brusseles pact

  • The Soviets started to prohibit the movement between western Germany and West Berlin.

    The 3 western allies met in Moscow on the 2nd of August with the Soviet government to try to reach an agreement.

  • The decision of creating a new state, a West German federal state.

  • The raise of the COMECON, by six countries of Europe.

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • The Cold War ignites the Korean War

  • Asia was divided in two communists: North Korea and China, closely tied to the USSR.

  • It started the Korean War

  • Bombs developed by Britain

  • After Stalin´s death, Nikita raised to the power. This made an important change in the war.

  • President Joseph Stalin dies.

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