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Yalta Conference
When: Feb 4, 1945 - Feb 11, 1945.
Where: Yalta Conference took place in a Russian.
What was it: With Allied victory likely, the aim of the Yalta Conference was to decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated.
What effect it had on the Cold War: The Cold War was a struggle for world dominance between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union.
What effect it had on Liberalism: Germany was divided by 4, and free elections in liberated countries. -
Potsdam conference
When: Jul 17, 1945 - Aug 2, 1945.
Where: In Potsdam, Germany.
What was it: They ( the big three ) met in postdam germany. Since the Yalta conference some big changes had happend.
Effect it had on the Cold War: The conference failed to settle most of the impotant issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War ll came to an end.
Effect it had on Liberalism: Soviet Union on the other in fact meant the Potsdam was to be the last Allied. -
Hiroshima bombing
who: US, Japanese, cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Where: America
Waht was it: The most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
Effect it had on the cold war:
How it affected liberalism: People's moral foundations affected their attitudes to nuclear weapons. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
who:The third choice, Nagasaki was a port city located about 100 miles from Kokura.
Where:
What was it:
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Truman Doctrine
when: March 12, 1947.
Where: communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey.
Waht was it: American foregin policy that originated with primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Effect it had on the cold war: (A relaxation of tension) to a containment of Soviet expantio as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.
How it affected liberalism: Was informally extended to become the basis of American Cold War policy throughout Europe and around the world. -
Marshall Plan
who: East Germany.
Where: US
Waht was it: The US sectary Geoge Marshall announced a 13 billion dollar plan to help the European countries.
Effect it had on the cold war: Beginining of the Cold War between the United state and its European allies and the Soviet Union, which had effectively taken control of central and eastern Europe.
How it affected liberalism: Marshall plan encouraged the development of liberal - democratic system of government in Europe. -
Molotov plan
who: Eastern Europe countries.
Where: Europe.
Waht was it: To provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union.
Effect it had on the cold war: Molotov Plan state to reorganize their trade to the Sloviet Union instead.
How it affected liberalism: Was successful helped. -
Brussels Treaty
who: Western European countries - Britain, France, Luxembrourg, and the Netherlands.
Where: Brussels, Belgium
Waht was it: Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and collective Self-Defence.
Effect it had on the cold war: Underwent a constant annual increase in its defence budget as a percent of its gross national product.
How it affected liberalism: NATO established collective security for mutual protection of its member. -
Berlin Block aid
who: United State, Great Britain, and Frence.
Where: Russian-occupied East Germany.
Waht was it: Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
Effect it had on the cold war: It accelerated the Allies plans to set up the state.
How it affected liberalism: Left without food, clothing, or medical supplies -
NATO
who: United State, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
Where: Brussels
Waht was it: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Effect it had on the cold war: During the Cold War, NATO focused on collective defence and the protection of its member from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union.
How it affected liberalism: Don't Count on NATO to save Liberal values. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons.
who: Russian physicists Andrei Sakharov left and Igor Kurchatov.
Where: The Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
Waht was it: first successful weapon test. First Lightning, based on the American "Fat Man" design.
Effect it had on the cold war: United States and Soviet Union became a nuclear arms race. This was crippling to their economy and helped to bring an end to the Cold War.
How it affected liberalism: A single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people. -
Korean War
who: North Korea & South Korea
Where: Korea
Waht was it: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea and the Republic of Korea South Korea
Effect it had on the cold war: The war cost more than two million lives and ruined the economy of Korea for twenty years.
How it affected liberalism: killed more than two million Koreans, separated thousands of families, and created the world's most heavily fortified border. -
Stalin’s Death
who:Stalin's funeral procession on Okhotny Ryad
Where: Kyiv, Ukraine.
What was it:He was given a state funeral, with four days of national mourning declared.
Effect it had on the cold war:Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions.
How it affected liberalism:Stalin's death brought change to the Soviet Union. After Stalin was gone, these people were able to break out of that awful system that's one of the thankful. -
Warsaw pact
who: The Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria
Where: Warsaw, Poland
What was it: A collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Effect it had on the cold war: Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of European communist states meant to counter NATO.
How it affected liberalism: End of Warsaw Pact also ended the post-World War II Soviet hegemony in Central Europe from -
Vietnam War
who: France,United States,China,Soviet Union,Laos,Cambodia,South Korea and Other U.S. Allies,Vietnam.
Where: South Vietnam
What was it: Pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
Effect it had on the cold war: More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.
How it affected liberalism: American liberals to the Vietnam War has often suspect by historians -
Hungarian Revolution
who:Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Soviet Union
Where:Hungarian Revolution
Waht was it:Hungarian Revolution, popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin's rule.
Effect it had on the cold war:Khrushchev ordered the Red Army to put down the Hungarian Uprising by force.
How it affected liberalism:Efforts to adjust Hungary's economy to the world market were handicapped by the adverse effects of the energy. -
NORAD
who:It placed under joint command the air forces of Canada and the United States.
Where:Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center.
Waht was it:NORAD was a pact made in 1957, at the height of the Cold War.
Effect it had on the cold war:The North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD was a pact made in 1957, at the height of the Cold War.
How it affected liberalism:The North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD is a binational military command responsible for aerospace warning. -
Fidel Castro taking over
who:Fidel Castro
Where:Cuban Revolution
Waht was it: After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister
Effect it had on the cold war:Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis a defining incident of the Cold War in 1962.
How it affected liberalism: Fidel Castro was a communist revolutionary who established the first Castro arrived in Havana a week later and soon took over as prime. -
Creation of the Berlin wall
who:The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic GDR, or East Germany
Where:East German
Waht was it:The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin
Effect it had on the cold war:It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin
How it affected liberalism:Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German. -
Bay of pigs
who:Some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro.
Where:Bay of Pigs Invasion
Waht was it:When a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.
Effect it had on the cold war:The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas
How it affected liberalism:Most likely confused by the change in time zones between Nicaragua and Cuba. -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
who:Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Where:Cuba
Waht was it: The October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1-month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Effect it had on the cold war:It also may have helped mitigate negative world opinion regarding the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
How it affected liberalism:Withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and the withdrawal of American missiles from Turkey and Italy -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
who:The United States and Russia
Where:Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was it:To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
Effect it had on the cold war:The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is perhaps the largest and most expensive arms
How it affected liberalism:A single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people. -
Afghanistan / soviet war
who:The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army
Where:Kabul
What was it:Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army.
Effect it had on the cold war:The war created a breeding ground for terrorism and the rise of Osama bin Laden.
How it affected liberalism:The brutal nine-year conflict, an estimated one million civilians were killed, as well as 90,000 Mujahideen fighters and 18,000 Afghan troops. -
Solidarity in Poland
who:Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Where:Gdańsk Shipyard
What was it: Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change.
Effect it had on the cold war:At the height of the Cold War, Poland attempted to remain neutral to the conflict between the Soviets and the Americans.
How it affected liberalism:little impact on the political scene of Poland in the early 1990s -
Czechoslovakia Revolution
who:The Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary
Where:Prague, Czechoslovakia
What was it:Resignation of the Communist government Democracy and free elections Civil rights Economic reform
Effect it had on the cold war:Before the Second World War, the nation of Czechoslovakia had been a strong democracy in Central Europe
How it affected liberalism:The Soviet Union also supported a change in the ruling elite of Czechoslovakia, although it did not anticipate the overthrow of the Communist regime. -
Berlin Wall falling
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End of the Cold war.
who:Mikhail Gorbachev
Where:Berlin Wall
What was it:Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.
Effect it had on the cold war:In Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War has ushered in an era of economic growth
How it affected liberalism:liberal democracies, while in other parts of the world, such as Afghanistan, independence was accompanied by state failure.