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Yalta Conference
The Allied forces (U.K, Britain, and the Soviet union) met at Yalta on the black sea to plan out their wartime actions and discuss the future of postwar Europe. At Yalta the Allied forces agreed that European countries should have free elections and the ability to decide their own futures, so a democracy in a sense. The outcome of this meeting lead to the cold war creating tension between the two main superpowers, USSR and the United States of America. -
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Potsdam Conference
US President Harry Truman and SU's Stalin met with Britain's Churchill and Clement Attlee in Potsdam Germany. These leaders agreed on such things as reparations to be made and the restructuring of Germany. The political and economic division between communism and democracy increased during this conference. Britain and the US were concerned about the growth of Soviet influence.The SU was concerned with building their influence to protect their borders. -
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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, America bombed to force Japan to surrender. This impacted the cold war because it was said to of been a message sent to the SU from the US. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. This plan was the Soviet Union's refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan because of their belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states, through the conditions imposed, and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States. -
Creation of Nuclear Weapons
The first nuclear weapon was created by the U.S. during the Second World War and was developed to be used against the Axis powers, the Soviet Union were aware of the potential of nuclear weapons and had also been conducting research on the field. The creation of nuclear weapons on the cold war was huge because the big two super powers of the time, US and SU, kept threatening to use their nuclear weapons but never did because they both feared what would happen when everyone is nuking each other. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations threatened by Soviet communism which amplified tensions between the two super powers. -
Treaty of Brussels
The Treaty of Brussels was signed between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as an expansion to the preceding year's defence pledge, the Dunkirk Treaty signed between Britain and France.The treaty was intended to provide Western Europe with a defence against the communist threat and to bring greater collective security. The treaty was terminated March, 31, 2010. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative signed for by President Truman to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. however The SU saw this as dollar imperialism and refused the aid. the plan reduced the influence/power of Communism in Western Europe. This angered the Soviet Union and was seen as another anti-communist move by the USA, following the Truman Doctrine. -
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Berlin Blockade
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Post WWII Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the Deutsche mark from West Berlin. The Allies formed the Berlin Airlift in response to the blockade to bring supplies to the people of west Berlin.The Soviets did not disrupt the airlift for fear this might lead to open conflict. -
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between the United States and Europe.It served as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and it strengthened the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea who had support of China/SU, and South Korea who had support of the US. North Korea had invaded South Korea.The Soviet Union declared war on Imperial Japan, because of an agreement with the US, and joined with North Korea. US was allies with South Korea. By 1948, as a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea split into two states. This was an attack on an American ally by SU and US attempt to diminish communism. -
Stalins Death
Joseph Stalin, who had ruled the Soviet Union since 1928, died at the age of 73.Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions. In 1955, Austria regained its sovereignty and became an independent, neutral nation after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country. The next year, Khrushchev denounced Stalin and his policies at the 20th Communist Party conference. Khrushchev called for "peaceful coexistence" between the East and West. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact is a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe. -
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Vietnam War
The war was fought between North and South Vietnam, North Vietnam was affiliated with the communist allies and South Vietnam was supported by ant-communist allies (US). The US government viewed its involvement in the war as preventing a communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. -
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Hungarian Revolution
was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since Nazi Germany. The revolt spread quickly across Hungary and the government collapsed. SU ended the revolt by invading and killing the people protesting further spreading communism. -
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command.
NORAD is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America. It was created to protect North America from any attacks done by the soviet union, since a soviet attack would come over the arctic, across Canada and into the U.S. -
Fidel Castro taking over
Fidel lead the cuban revolution against the authoritarian government of President Batista. The revolution began in 1953 and ended in 1959 turning Cuba into a communist state after Fidel came into power. Cuba turning into a communist state impacted the cold war because the army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new administration pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA intending to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was defatted by cuban armed forces. US stepped in and tried to overthrow Fidel Castro as a way to stop the spread of communism in the Americas because of the fear US or right wing states had or communism. -
Creation of the Berlin wall
the communist government of East Germany built the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Even though Berlin was located entirely within the Soviet part of the country the Yalta/Potsdam agreements split the city into sectors. The Soviets took the eastern half, while the other Allies took the western. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S./Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
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End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment in Italy/Turkey with consequent Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. After the crisis ended, US relationship with the Soviet Union improved to some degree. Both sides realized how close they were to nuclear war. -
Nuclear Arm Treaties
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation 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. the objective was to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
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Soviet-Afghan War
Groups known as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government. The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war. Soviet invaded Afghanistan to spread communism in the democratic state provoking the anti communist US -
Solidarity in Poland
The most influential of the newly formed trade unions was 'Solidarity'. This was a union of workers at the Gdansk shipyards, led by Lech Walesa. The rmion soon became a symbol of opposition to authoritarian communist government. political and religious freedom.Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism. -
Falling of the Berlin wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. He said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. This shows that tensions in the Cold war were finally calming down and that the cold war was nearing the end. -
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Czech Revolution
The Velvet Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. In response to the collapse of other Warsaw Pact governments and the increasing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced that it would dismantle the one-party state, the legislature formally deleted the sections of the Constitution giving the Communists a monopoly of power. -
End of cold war
The Cold War 'ended' on Dec 3 1989 when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met with US president George Bush aboard a Soviet ship docked at Malta’s Marsaxlokk harbour.The summit and joint press conference had the appearance of a friendly, diplomatic conclusion to a protracted conflict spanning four decades. Although the war did not actually end for another two years, the meeting between Gorbachev and Bush was a major stepping stone on the journey to peace.