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Soviet creations of nuclear weapons
The USSR started experimenting with nuclear weapons making them a threat against everyone and making people fear them.
This took place in 1943.
This took place in soviet Russia.
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Potsdam conference
what:This is when the US,USSR,and the UK where represented by Joseph stalin,Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
when. from July 17 to August 2, 1945.
where: Potsdam Germany.
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Yalta conference
A World War II meeting with the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union this took place in yalta. this is what started of the cold war.This affected Germany,Europe, and other countries freedoms. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe for the damaged caused from WW2. This affected the trust between both countries in a good way making sure they don't go communist -
Hiroshima bombing
The United used two nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.on the 6th and 9th of August 1945, r
The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most were civilians -
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Truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy thats purpose was to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. This policy was made in the US.This affected what countries were going to pick.This made more places liberal instead of communist. . -
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NATO
NATO is an organization which consists of the USA, Canada, Britain, and other European countries, all agreed to support each other if one side attacked the other which would start an all out fight and everyone was forced to join in. NATO is an abbreviation for 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Nato was created in washington D.C.This made it so everyone was scared to fight because it would cause mass destruction all over the world. liberalism was united -
Molotov plan
What:The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union.
When: 1947 during the cold war.
where:The soviet union
what affect did it have on liberalism:This took away individualism in the the countries trapped by the ussr -
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Berlin blockade
what:The berlin blockade was the first major international crises during the cold war.
when: This started from june 24, 1948, ending may 12, 1949
where:This event took place in germany
The effect on liberalism:This affected the allies, drowning them from supplies -
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The treaty of Brussels
The Treaty of Brussels was the founding treaty of the Western Union between 1948 and 1954, at which it point it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union until it got taken down in 2010. The treaty provided for the organisation of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation among member states, as well as a mutual defence clause. -
death of Stalin
Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. He was given a state funeral with four days of national mourning declared. His body was subsequently embalmed and interred in Lenin's & Stalin's Mausoleum until 1961. -
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norad
What: North American aerospace defense command (NORAD) placed during the height of the cold war to combine the canadian and american air forces.
When:This took place in 1957
where: The US and the Canada.
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Bay of pigs
what:The bay of pigs was a failed operation to use cubans to take out there government.
when: from Apr. 17, 1961 – Apr. 19, 1961 this happened.
where: this happened in the southwestern coast of Cuba
The effect on liberalism: The current government at the time in cuba was anti liberal so the US sent exiled and out of countries to try and liberate the government but this attempt marked one of the first big mistakes the US made. -
The creation of the Berlin wall
This was the creation of a wall made by the soviet to split liberal and soviet sides.This took place in Germany. This made it so that people couldn't leave if they didn't like being communist this affected both sides by forcing what you believe. -
Nuclear arms treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation or NPT, Treaty was an agreement signed in 1968 by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology, after this Russia and the us started stand down there nuclear weapons after a long period of tense showdowns of who is better. -
solidarity in poland
Solidarity emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard when the communist government of Poland signed the agreement allowing for its existence. On 17 September 1980, over twenty Inter-factory Founding Committees of free trade unions merged at the congress into one national organisation NSZZ Solidarity. -
berlin wall
What: the falling of the wall dividing east and west germany.
what effect: iron curtain.
where:Berlin
what effect it had on liberalism: When the berlin wall fell, liberalism expanded into east germany for the first time in years -
Czechoslovakia revolution
This was a political repression Authoritarianism Economic stagnation Alleged death of Martin smid. The Communist promised government Democracy and free elections Civil rights Economic reform. -
end of cold war
In 1989 to 1990 the removal of the Berlin wall in Germany giving free elections dissolves remaining communist into its component republics.This removed the iron curtains placed by the ussr