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Operation Barbarossa
*Diplomatic cause
German forces crossed the Russian frontier and began to fight their way into Soviet territory.
This lead to the USSR gaining 'great power status,' and an unlikely alliance between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt.
Communism was becoming more stronger. -
US begins lend-lease to USSR
*Economic and diplomatic cause.
-The Lend-Lease program was devised by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress on March 11, 1941.
-United States supplied Free France, the UK, ROC, and later the USSR with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. -
Japanese attack to Pearl Harbour.
*Politic cause.
Marks the moment United States enters to the second world war. -
Tehran Conference
*Diplomatic and economic cause.
The conference addressed the Allies' relations with Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan, and the envisaged post-war settlement. A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three to recognize Iran's independence. -
D-Day and western front
*Diplomatic cause.
Western Allies and the Soviet Union portrayed as something of an alliance of civilization against the barbaric Nazi conquest.
Western Allies and the Soviet Union portrayed as something of an alliance of civilization against the barbaric Nazi conquest.
Soviet Union as an 'allied power' was a heterogeneous entity contrasting the relationship between the powers of Great Britain, France, the United States -
Red Army
*Diplomatic cause.
Communists from the occupied countries of Eastern Europe escaped to Moscow and set up Communist governments in exile there. As the Red Army drove the Nazis back, it occupied large areas of Eastern Europe and Churchill in the so-called percentages agreement - agreed that Eastern Europe could be a Soviet "sphere of influence". -
Moscow Conference
*Diplomatic and political cause.
Stalin and Churchill agreed "spheres of influence in Eastern Europe".
It represented the tide of the cold war turing in USSR's direction. -
Yalta Conference
*Diplomatic and political cause.
The "Big Three" allied leaders: president Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill—meet at the Yalta Conference to make arrangements for the postwar world order. -
Communist dominated coup in Romania
Communism beganst to grow and spread -
Last Postdam Conference
*Diplomatic cause.
The last wartime conference of the “Big Three”–the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain marking the end of the "Big Three"
The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War. -
US Atomic Bomb
*Economic and political cause.
USA drops the first Atomic Bomb in Hirroshima. This causes tensions between the superpowers USSR and USA in order to show their superiority and power -
End of Second World War
*Diplomatic and political cause.
Soviet army marches into Berlin; the German capital city falls. World War II marks it ends. USSR,USA, Great Britain, and France divide Berlin and Germany into four zones of occupation, a decision made during the Yalta conference. -
Stalin Hostile Speech
*Economic cause.
Stalin says communism & capitalism were incompatible.
-Capitalism as a danger of World Peace -
Kennan´s Telegram
*Diplomatic and political cause.
George Kennan sends the Long Telegram advocating containment.
This document was subjective because it was written by Kennan who is american and does not support soviet communism causing tensions. -
Iron Curtain Speech
*Political and economic cause.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech marks beginning of the Cold War.
The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas -
Truman Doctrine
*Economical and political cause.
Speech made by the 33th presiden of the United States Harry Truman in order to establish that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all contries that are threatened by soviet influence -
Marshall Plan
*Economic and diplomatic cause.
A programme of US economic aid for the reconstruction of post-World War II Europe (1948–52).
The Marshall Plan was also offered to those countries of Eastern Europe that were under Soviet influence, including the Soviet Union itself. -
Rio Pact
*Diplomatic cause.
United States met with 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
*Political cause.
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government, marking the four decades of Communist rule in the country. -
New currency introduced in Western Zones of Germany.
*Economic cause.
Monetary reform was urgently needed to facilitate the introduction of the Marshall Plan, -
Berlink Blockade Begins
*Diplomatic, economical and political cause.
Soviet Union Occupies Eastern-Germany. -
COMECON
communique agreed upon by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.it was Joseph Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the small states of Eastern Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan -
Formation of NATO
*Diplomatic cause.
12 nations established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to coordinate the military defenses of member nations against possible Soviet aggression
