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Potsdam Conference, Part 1
Three big countries came together to have a discussion to negotiate the terms for WWII. They talked about how to handle Germany and the destruction that they have created. One way to deal with Germany was by having the countries deal with the reparations for their own territories. People encouraged this because they wanted to avoid what happened with the Treaty of Versailles. Another way was be demilitarizing and reconstructing Germany as a whole, and also re-making the borders of Germany... -
Potsdam Conference, Part 2
Soviet Union, and Poland. But were not put into place because there was a fear of transfers. There were more ideas but one conversation that this conference was most known for was with Truman and Stalin, they had their disagreements and that led to challenges in negotiations, so the US, GB, and the Soviets remained allies throughout the war, but never met again to come up with an ultimate solution for the reconstruction postwar (Potsdam Conference). -
Truman Doctrine
A pronouncement for immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece, threatened by Communist insurrection. After the US and Soviet Union could not reach a balance of power after the Cold War, Great Britain said that they could not afford to aid Mediterranean countries. The US congress responded by giving $400,000,000 for the purpose that they could not fall under Soviet influence (Truman Doctrine). -
Marshall Plan, Part 1
It was a US sponsored program that helps to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries to help create stable conditions so that democratic institutions could keep open. The US feared that poverty, unemployment, and dislocation could help reinforce communist party voters in western Europe. The US had agreed to a recovery program that helps European Countries with their economy. -
NATO, Part 1
A political alliance between the US, Canada, and other European countries. NATO had started to make their alliance bigger by building a stronger military. Weapons were the basis of their defense system. The third period of NATO was an era of easing tension. They were able to increase their cooperation and trade with the Soviet Union, and were able to sign treaties of strategic arms. But during the fourth period, during the Cold War tables had turned- and tensions started to grow internationally. -
NATO, Part 3
....treaty and told everyone that they were no longer adversaries (NATO). -
Korean War, Part 1
First major battle over communism. Japan controlled Korea until the end of WWII. After Japan had lost, the Soviet Union had taken over in the north, while the US took over in the south. In 1948 the country was divided into North and South Korea. On June 25, 1950 the North Koreans took with the Soviets took attacked South Korea. While North Korea was attacking there was an immediate message sent out to hold the fire, but North Korea kept going. After two days, People had sent troops to help.... -
Korean War, Part 2
South Korea. After more countries had sent people, South Korea was able to go and attack North Korea. With the attack came anger from China, and on November 25, 1950 Chinese troops had entered the war. On December 31, 1950 the Chinese and North Korean troops had invaded South Korea again. But peace talks soon began to form in July of 1951, and on July 27, 1953 representatives on both sides had signed an agreement. The war overall had take about 1,300,000 South Koreans, 1,000,000 Chinese.... -
Marshall Plan, Part 2
After April of 1948, Hoffman, for four year had given worth $13 billion for economic aid, helping to restore industrial and agricultural production, establish financial stability, and expand trade. Overall the plan was very successful, and the European countries that had gotten aid had a rise in their gross national products by 15 to 25 percent during that period. It had greatly contributed to many benefits within those countries (Marshall Plan). -
Korean War, Part 3
...500,000 North Koreans and 37,000 Americans (Korean War). -
Warsaw Pact, Part 1
Military and political alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact to Counterbalance NATO. The Soviets hoped that the Warsaw Pact would contain West Germany and negotiate with NATO as an equal partner. -
Vietnam War, Part 1
Both sides of Vietnam wanted had different views. North Vietnam wanted to reunite the country under communism while South Vietnam didn’t want communism to come back. The US was an ally with South Vietnam, but lost the war to North Vietnam in 1975, leading the country to be a communist country. Before the war Vietnam was apart of a french colony, until a group of vietnamese people declared Vietnam’s independence. That occurrence had caused an eight year war, that ended with the Vietnamese. -
Vietnam War, Part 2
...getting their independence. South Vietnam started to fight Diem’s government. They hid during the day and attacked at night. The US had agreed with this and fought with them because they didn’t like communism, they had trained the South Vietnamese army. But later then killed Diem because of his beliefs. After North Vietnam had attacked a US ship in 1964, US congress had given the president permission to expand the US’ role in the war. The US had taken soldiers from everywhere- South Korea... -
Suez Crisis, Part 2
..having an impact that will make the ships pay for them to go through to ship items. On October 29, 1956 the Israelis invaded Egypt and went for the canals. On November 5 & 6, the British and French landed in Port Said and occupied the canal zone. As more people started to move in, other retracted and moved out. The impact that had caused Arab and Egyptian nationalism, but Britain and France had lost most of their influence in the Middle East (Suez Crisis). -
Suez Crisis, Part 1
An international crisis that had happened in the Middle East. This had happened when Gamal Abdel, the egyptian president..nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, and was controlled by the French and British. The crisis was awoken by an American and British decision to no fiance Egypt’s construction of the Aswan High Dam, like they had promised. From there Nasser had enforced a “martial law in the canal zone and seizing control of the Suez Canal Company".. -
Hungarian Revolution
After a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, he had attacked while Joseph Stalin was in rule. People had been encouraged by new freedom, debate and criticism. The rebels had won the first phase, and Nagy became premier and established a multiparty system. On November 4, 1956, the Soviet Union had invaded Hungary to stop the revolution and Nagy was executed for treason in 1958. But Hungary thereafter had experienced a slow evolution toward some internal autonomy (Hungarian Revolution). -
Sputnik, Part 1
Purpose of missile was to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. Prior to making Sputnik, other missiles that the US had made were fails. After the first successful missile was launched by the Soviets, people had feared that the US was far behind in technology. Although Eisenhower wasn’t a fan for the Sputnik launch he still put funds into the program to help... -
Sputnik, Part 2
The first launch that really helped the US was on January 31, 1958, the Explorer was launched and was successful, but not as good as the Sputnik. The soviets launched another to keep the space race going. The fear had gave the US encouragement to make a better missile. But the Cuban Missile Crisis helped to remind both sides about the dangers of the weapons that they were making (Sputnik). -
Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1
A 13-day political and military stand-off. After gaining power in the Caribbean, Fidel Castro had involved himself with the Soviet Union. Cuba had grown acquainted to having the Soviets aid, while they were in battle with the US for the Cold War. On one of the fronts of the Cold War battle, a missile was seen for installation. The missiles being present, so close to the border had leaders worried... -
Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 2
Kennedy had thought that the missile needed to be removed, or else it could possibly turn into a nuclear war. On October 24th Soviet ships had blocked Cuba, and could have started a war. The “war” that was bound to happen was settled with exchanged letters and communication (Cuban Missile Crisis). -
Vietnam War, Part 3
Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines (1968). As Nixon started his term in 1969, he had started to remove troops from Vietnam, and in January of 1973, the US signed an agreement with Vietnam to stop fighting. Although the war did not stop, the US still supported South Vietnam with money and equipment. As soon as the US started to fall back in supporting South Vietnam, their army had started to fall, and North Vietnam had taken advantage and launched a massive invasion in South.. -
Vietnam War, Part 4
...massive invasion in South Vietnam. The war had finally ended, and the communist had won. In 1976 South and North Vietnam had combined into one country-Vietnam (Vietnam War). -
NATO, Part 2
With this came fear of nuclear war either local or on a global scale. As NATO went on, they had remained militarily strong, but was set back with controversies on politics. As the Cold War came to an end, the Soviet Union fell along with it. Anti-Soviet countries gained strength, and the Warsaw Pact countries went with non-communist principles. Having the political and military atmosphere between eastern and western Europe change drastically. The Warsaw Pact leaders signed a major arms-control.. -
Glasnost
Glasnot was a Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. Founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980’s. He launched Glasnot after the introduction of Perestroika- a program aimed to reconstruct the Soviet’s economic and political policy. He had thought that the only way to overcome inertia within the Soviet Union was by opening up the political system. The path to economic recovery, in his mind, was by inclusion of ordinary citizens in the political process (Glasnost). -
Perestroika
Perestroika is another word translated as, reconstruction. Perestroika helps to reconstruct the political and economic policy. The program was intended to be a moderate and controlled program that would revitalize the stagnant Soviet economy. With the fear of losing power and privileges, had stopped Gorbachev’s program. As a new parliament was created in 1988, similar congresses were also made in each republic (Perestroika). -
Warsaw Pact, Part 2
Countries that were apart of the Warsaw Pact were Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and the German Democratic Republic. Although the pact was made to defend each other when under attack, the Soviet Union controlled most of the pacts’ decisions. The impact was a falling away from communism (Warsaw Pact).
