Cold war by costalonga d4bdjsg

1939-1991

By martinamaniobra
  • Period: to

    Second World War

  • Stevenage was built

  • Harlow was built

  • Welwyn Garden City

  • Social Insurance and Allied Services was published

  • Three major decisions at Yalta

  • Labour won the General Election

  • Clement Attlee was elected

  • Summits held by the Big Three

    Two main summits were held between the Big Three allies (Britain, America and the USSR) during 1945 to decide on the future of Germany and Eastern Europe –The Yalta conference and the Postdam conference

  • the USA and Soviet Union had increased

    Stalin was determined to force Communism onto Poland and other Eastern European countries
    The USA deliberately didn’t tell the USSR about the development and plan to use the atom bomb on Japan: This made the USSR suspicious of the USA

  • Agreements at Potsdam

  • National Insurance Act

    Everyone paid a small amount each week, and employers added a contribution. All those who paid into the scheme could claim benefits when they were ill, unemployed or retired
  • Period: to

    European Developments

    In 1948 the USSR and the West disagreed over Berlin
    West Berlin survived because of the Berlin airlift
    The blockade hardened the division between East and West
    The tension between the USA and the USSR was called the Cold War

  • The Truman Doctrine

  • The school leaving age was raised from 14 to 15

  • The Town and Country Planning Act

  • Period: to

    Cold War

  • The Marshall Plan

  • Coal, Radio & telephone communications, Air transport

  • Public transport, Electricity

  • Public transport, Electricity

  • USSR and the West disagreed over Berlin

  • Disagreements in Berlin

    The Western allies (USA, Br and Fr) agreed to a single government and a new currency to help economic recovery: The Soviet Union opposed these moves. Stalin wanted to keep Germany weak so he decided to blockade Berlin

  • Mao Tse-Tung became leader of China

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • people had to start paying for medical treatments

  • National Health Service prescription charges in 1952

  • Iron and Steel were de-nationalised

  • Uprising followed Stalin’s death

  • A Communist government in Vietnam

  • The Geneva Agreement of 1954

  • Batista, military dictator who was overthrown in Cuba

  • New leader of Cuba: Fidel Castro

  • The Berlin Wall was built

  • President Kennedy authorized an invasion of Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis take place

    The USA’s U2 spy planes flying high-altitude reconnaissance flights detected these Soviet missiles –from Cuba they could be used to attack US cities.
    President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. All Soviet ships were to be stopped and searched to prevent further missiles being transported to Cuba
    Kennedy demanded that Khrushchev withdraw his missiles and prepared to invade Cuba. The Soviet ships steamed on to Cuba
    At the last minute Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba an

  • President Johnson changed US policy

  • Khruschev had been removed

  • US bombing campaign began against North Vietnam

  • The Tet Offensive turned US public opinion against the war

  • Czechoslovakia rebelled against Communism

  • US-USSR relations improved

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement

  • The school leaving age was raised to 16

  • Helsinki Agreement was signed

  • USSR replaced missils

  • USSR invaded Afghanistan

  • US Congress refused to ratify

  • Poland’s people rebelled

  • changes to USA foreign policy by Ronald Reagan

  • General Jaruselski came to power

  • NATO decided to station over 500 Cruise and Pershing missiles in Western Europe

  • Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party

  • Gorbachev announce to the United Nations

    The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorvachev told the United Nations that the countries of Eastern Europe now had a choice: the USSR wasn’t going to control them any more

  • Communism fell all over Eastern Europe

    Hungary opened its frontier with Austria
    Free elections in Poland: Solidarity won (new non-Communist government)
    Many East Germans crossed into West Germany
    Berlin Wall was torn down
    Anti-Communist demonstration in Czechoslovakia
    Nikolai Ceauçescu, Romania dictator, was executed after a revolution against his cruel and corrupt regime

  • Eastern European countries responded

    Hungary opened its frontier with Austria
    Free elections in Poland: Solidarity won (new non-Communist government)
    Many East Germans crossed into West Germany
    Berlin Wall was torn down
    Anti-Communist demonstration in Czechoslovakia
    Nikolai Ceauçescu, Romania dictator, was executed after a revolution against his cruel and corrupt regime

  • Nikolai Ceauçescu was executed