Cold War (1945 1953)

By dlotero

  • Yalta Conference

    Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed on key issues which would shape the post-war world

  • US President Harry Truman

    Roosevelt died and was replaced by Harry Truman

  • End of the Second World War in Europe

  • First Atomic Bomb tested in New Mexico

  • Potsdam Conference

    Stalin, Churchill and Truman meet

  • Clement Attlee replaces Churchill as British Prime Minister

  • Atomic bomb from the US was dropped in Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bomb from the US was dropped in Nagasaki

  • The Second War ends in Japan

  • The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers

    This event goes before the formation of the Soviet Bloc
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    Formation of the Soviet Bloc

    Eastern Europe except Finland are under Moscow’s control. To prevent the advance of communism in western Europe as well as to avoid war with the USSR, the US and Britain intervened directly with Eastern Europe’s affairs.
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    US policy in Japan

    The US transformed the Japan’s government and economy into a liberal capitalist democracy

  • Churchill Iron Curtain

    Official declaration of the Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman offered the economic support of the US to countries resisting Communism

  • Cominform is established by the USSR

    Communist information Bureau established to promote ideological unity among communists

  • Decision to create West Germany (second London Conference)

  • The Marshall Plan

    Offer of aid package, funds to be distributed by supernational organization. It was accepted by Western Europe and rejected by the USSR

  • The Yugoslav-Soviet split

    Stalin broke the ally-ship with Tito splitting Yugoslavia formo the Soviet bloc

  • Brussels Pact

    Belgium, Britain, France, Luxemburg and the Netherlands, defende the other Pact members from aggressors
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    Berlin Blockade

    USSR cut down supplies to West Berlin
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    Berlin Airlift

    Western Allies responded to the Berlin Blockade by supplying West Berlin by aircraft

  • COMECON foundation

    The USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, COMECON was founded, Poland and Romania joined in 1950

  • The Sino-Soviet Pact

    The pact committed both states to:
    - co-operate in terms of defence in the case of attack by Japan or its ally (US)
    - conclude a peace treaty with Japan which would not be hostile to the interests of either state
    - not conclude any hostile agreement with another power aimed at the other member of the Pact
    - consult closely on matters of mutual interest

  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    Canada, US, Brussels, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Italy and Portugal signed a treaty for 20 years

  • Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany

  • Successful test of atomic bomb by the USSR

  • Chinese Revolution

    China became a communist state and ally of the USSR

  • German Democratic Republic established

  • Cominform and the Peace Movement

    Cominform was given the task of creating a peace movement

  • The outbreak of the Korean War

    Soviets provided weapons and military advisors in disguise (to not appear suspicious to the US) to North Korea. consequently North Korea was superior over the South in military strength

  • Pleven Plan

    Formation of European Defense Community (EDC) Pleven Plan (Purpose: create super national European army with an European Minister of Defense and an European Assembly appointed by the participating governments

  • Treaty of peace with Japan

  • European Defense Community Treaty

  • Eisenhower elected as US President

  • Stalin dies

  • Korean Armistice

    Both sides recognize the 38th parallel as a driving line between North and South Korea