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the Cold War Timeline

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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MEGAN AND PEACHES

12/18/12

WW2: ALLIANCES BETWEEN SOVIET UNION AND US

THE YALTA CONFERENCE

YALTA CONFERENCE

3 MEN AGREED ON A MILITARY END TO WW2, ALSO JOINT OCCUPATION OF GERMANY

POTSDAM CONFERENCE

POSTWAR EUROPE WOULD BE DIVIDED INTO EAST AND WEST

ECONOMIC AND MILITARY ALLIANCES

MARSHALL PLAN; EFFORT TO PROMOTE WORLD PEACE AND STABILITY

ALLIANCES: NATO

US, CANADA, FRANCE, GB, ITALY AND THE NETHERLANDS

ALLIANCES: WARSAW PACT 1955

SOVIET UNION, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, EAST GERMANY, HUNGARY, POLAND, AND ROMANIA

COMMUNIST REBELLIONS: GREECE AND TURKEY

COMMUNISTS TRY TO TAKE OVER

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

GAVE $ TO EVERY COUNTRY FIGHTING COMMUNIST

THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

US BOMBING OF JAPAN MADE US AND RUSSIA WANT TO GAIN NUCLEAR POWER

1952: HYDROGEN BOMB

RUSSIA = MILITARY SUPERPOWER

THE BERLIN CRISIS

STALIN BLOCKADED BERLIN SO US WOULD GIVE UP WEST BERLIN

US FOUND A WAY AROUND THE BLOCKADE

AIRLIFTED SUPPLIES INTO WEST BERLIN

KOREAN WAR

KOREA WAS DIVIDED INTO NORTH AND SOUTH