Beginning of the Cold War

By ElleKay
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The confrence is held in the Russian country of Yalta for one week to discuss the conditions of Europe post-war. At first the countries were in agreement, but after the death of Roosevelt, there was a debacle concerning USSR's influence in Eastern Europe. They had placed there thousands of communist troops in Eastern Europe countries, which made the U.S. wary on increasing communist power. In fear of the communism spread led to start of hostilities between the Soviet Union and America.
  • The Death of Hitler

    The Death of Hitler
    The infamous dictator commits suicide in a underground bunker as the Battle of Berlin rages above him; the battle that slowly sends the German troops to their defeat. His death demonstates the start of the final stages of the war.
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    End of World War II

    The events at the end of World War II led to the near immediate hostilities between Russia and America.
  • V-E Day

    This day commemorates the anniversary of the total surrender from all all the German troops in the invaded countries. Several regions of Nazi control that were bombarded by American forces over the days after Hitler's death. The generals in control conditionnaly and unconditionally call defeat by their dwindling numbers all throughout Europe.
  • Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference held in Potsdam, Germany, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany. Changes had taken place since the Yalta confrence, such as the The Soviet Union was occupying Central and Eastern Europe, America had a new President had tested an atomic bomb, and the war was ending. The ending agreement was to create military ocupation and make reconstruction in Germany, make reparations, and prosectue war criminals.
  • Little Boy

    Little Boy
    On that fateful morning, U.S. air forces drop the 20 kilo bomb in the heart on Hiroshima, killing over 90,000 people and incerating everything within a 5 mile radius. The decision was made to save more lives, money, and time from going directly into several battles. The bombing stuns the people and emporer, who remained paralyzed from attacking back.
  • Fat Man

    Fat Man
    After being informed in previous warfare that the Japanese will refuse to give up no matter what, the American government propses on the ultimatum. Just 3 days after the Hiroshima bombing, U.S. air forces once again drop a nuclear bomb on civilians; this time, in the country of Nagasaki. The impact kills over 70,000 people, approximately 6% of the population. During the following months, people began dying from the bomb's radioactive gases, getting diseases, and adding to the bombs' death count.
  • The Japanese Surrender

    Following the deaths and descruction from the bombs, the emperor decides on the total withdraw of Japan from war. The surrender is broadcasted on September 5th, and signals the complete end of World War II.
  • Stalin's Hostile Speech

    Joesph Stalin, at a meeting at of Voters, had announced in a speech that capitalism and communism were incompatible with each other. One was not able to exist peacefully without the other, which aided on the idea of competition between the two political systems in the world.
  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech
    After the end of the war, and failing to be re-elected for prime minister in London, Sir WInston Churchill travels to Fulton to give his famous speech on the Sinews of Peace. He spoke of the relationship between the U.S. and Britain, while communism was growing in southern Europe. He spoke in response to Stalin's hostile speech regarding the seperation of the north and south by an 'iron curtain'.
  • End of Chinese Civil War

    End of Chinese Civil War
    The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought for alomst 20 years before the COld War started. The difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. Chinese Communists fought from the north and northeast, until all of mainland China was taken over in 1941. The fighting continued throughout the COld War until 1971 when Tawain took China's spot in the United Nations.
  • Truman Doctrine

    President Harry S. Truman makes a speech on the U.S. assistence with Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination in the countries. In Greece, orces had been battling the Royal government since the end of World War II, and in Turkey, the Soviets were demanding control over the Dardanelles$400 million was aaked to be provided for assisstence in the de facto declaration of the Cold War.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. It successfully sparked economic recovery, by 'restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.' The plan, named after George C. Marshall was seen as a threat to the Soviet Union as a scheme to interfere in their internal affairs.
  • OAS is formed

    OAS is formed
    The Organization of American States is a regional international organization; the 35 independent states of the Americas being the members. After the Rio Pact was signed, a defensive military set up an alliance between the United States and the nations of Latin America. Examples of the unilateral use of force by the United States, such as the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, indicate that ithe"gunboat diplomacy" is not all gone in Latin America
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    From the end of the war, Germany was divided into four sectioned groups that would each be ceceeded over by allied countries. Half of Berlin was taken by Soviet communists and the other half by the other Allies. A unified West Berlin worried Soviets, who then proceeded to halt traffic from east to west. Allies supplied sectors with provisions fromhe air, with 300,000 planes taking off to beat the blockade.
  • NATO forms

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty founded by the U.S. and 11 other countries in Europe. 22 additional countries participated in NATO's "Partnership for Peace", with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. The organiztion was at first just a political association, but its prupose later on was to 'keep Americans out'. in involvement.
  • Warsaw Pact formed

    The Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. It was in part a Soviet military reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955, per the Paris Pacts of 1954. This passage referred to the decision by the U.S. and other NATO members to make West Germany a member and allow that nation to remilitarize. The Soviets saw this as a treat, creating the pact.