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Yalta Conference
Was a meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin , Franklin D Rosevelt early in Febuary 1945 as world war two was winding down. The idea was to work out power balances and have USSR agree to fight japan along with give free elections while in turn be given the Sakhalin and the Kurile islands. During the cold, the USSR went back on their words and used the lands as buffer zones -
Potsdam Conference
Big three soviet leaders met up to negotiate terms for the end of the war. Ultimately it failed with the three leaders only agreeing only on the division of Germany, while leaving the invase USSR disastified. Of course, this contributed to the USSR intrusive behavior of Eastern countries during the cold war -
Iron Curtain speech
Iron Hill gave his Curtain speech to advocate the cold War saying there was a an Imaginary boundary dividing europe into two seperate areas from the end of world War 1945. -
Chinese Civil War
(31 March 1946 – 1 May 1950)
With tension between Democracy and Commism, the resulting effect China's government going from democratic to communist brought greater tensions between U.S and the USSR -
Truman Doctrine
American foreignn policy created to counter soviet geopolitical aggemomy during Cold War. This doctrine forsaw the Cold war as it illustrated the U.S will to prevent countries from becoming communist -
Marshall Plan
(April 3, 1948) The Marshall was effective which was a U.S loan plan to help Europe in its recovery plan and, utimately, "unifiy" the continent with freerer trades and more democratic motifs. This however led to greater tensions with the USSR and in response led to retailiation of the deal and for the sphere of inflences to recover independent of each other -
Formation of OAS
(30 April 1948) The formation of OAS was to create emotional zeal aganist the commism and it was an intercontinental organization of the American continent: Canada, Latin America, and the U.S. Their main objectives were similar to NATO in that they observed their oversee peace with members, promote democracy and difuse corruption . -
Formartion of NATO
(April 4, 1949) With the Formation NATO, they were given situatons in which the USSR was invading lands in Eastern Europe -
Berlin airlift
At the end of the war U.S, British and Military forces divided and occupied Germany. It was also divided into ocupational zones, Berlin was located far inside soviet- comntrolled eastern Germany. -
Warsaw Pact
In response to NATO which sphere of influence is democratic, Warsaw Pact was forms with the sphere of Communism. It was league of slavic countries under the control of the communist party
