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Bombing of Nagasaki
This was the second bomb that was dropped by the united States, this resulted in japans unconditional surrender. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 a.m., 1,650 feet above the city. The explosion unleashed the equivalent force of 22,000 tons of TNT. They created violence and they didn't let one individuals have their own choices which is against liberalism. -
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Yalta Conference
known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference. It was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. -
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Potsdam Conference
This was held near Berlin this was the last of the world war two meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. -
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Hiroshima Bombing
American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. The devastation led to Japan's unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War II. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was designed to help the countries that favoured communism and the soviet union which to hand in hand. The Soviet Union created this system in order to rebuild the countries in Europe tied to them and their beliefs. The Molotov plan was the refusal by the Soviet Union to the ideas proposed in the Marshall plan. -
Truman Doctrine
This was a foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. and further developed on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
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Berlin Block Aid
This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The main cause of having the Berlin Block Aid was because of the Cold War, which was just getting started. Stalin was taking over eastern Europe by salami tactics and Czechoslovakia had just turned Communist. On the other side, the USA had just adopted the Truman Doctrine to 'contain' the USSR. -
Marshall plan
On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. Participating countries included Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France and Turkey. The marshall plan was promoting liberalism by having capitalism and it took peoples freedoms to choose. -
Brussels Treaty
Signed between the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, this also lead to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union. -
NATO
NATO formed for protection from Communist aggression. An attack on one meant an attack on all. This affected liberalism NATO was a liberal alliance which means that it was promoting liberal ideologies. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons
First off they exploded their own atomic bomb, The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" this took place at Semipalatinsk. -
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Korean War
world war 2 divided Korea into into a Communist northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean War all began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Stalin's Death
Stalin passed away at Red Square, Masco Russia, he also suffered from atherosclerosis as a result of heavy smoking, a mild stroke and a severe heart attack in October 1945. Stalin also had a hug role in the Cold War he made things harder for the people and would not attend to the norms of others. -
Warsaw Pact
Also known as Warsaw Treaty, it was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
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Vietnam War
The United States tried to fight wars to stop communism, Vietnam was a French colony since the 1800s. The Vietnamese fought long and hard for independence and successfully won in 1954. -
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Hungarian Revolution
Soviets put an end to Hungarian revolution. A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. -
NORAD
The North American Defence Agreement was a 1957 pact that placed under joint command the air forces of Canada and the United States. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it Nov.The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under Communism It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet block and the western democratic, capitalist block. Hungarians were exercising individual rights by revolting against communism,they don't follow communist rules and propaganda. -
Bay of pigs
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
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The Cuban missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
Nuclear Arm Treaties
The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. Entered into force in 1970 they then opened for signature in 1968 -
Fidel Castro taking over
He was was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister. By manipulating the opportunities afforded Cuba by the Cold War, he managed to turn his island into a launching pad for the projection of his leadership throughout the world. -
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Afghanistan/Soviet War
This lasted over nine years nsurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. -
Solidarity in Poland
This event was suppressed by the Polish government in December 1981, and reemerged in 1989 to become the first opposition movement to participate in free elections in a Soviet-bloc nation since the 1940s. -
Berlin Wall falling
The Fall of the Wall. As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
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Czechoslovakia Revolution
This took place in Czechoslovakia non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. on the 27th of October a two-hour general strike involving all citizens of Czechoslovakia was held. -
The End of the Cold War
The Cold War ended the Berlin Wall came down borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. This effected liberalism because they lost their rights and freedoms, things never went back to normal due to the fact they were constantly being watched and not being able to live their lives they way they wanted.
