Cold War to the Modern Day

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    Soviet Union (USSR)

    Soviet Union was present
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    Yalta Conference

    Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill meet to discuss the postwar worldDivision of Germany and its capital city Berlin into 4 zones of influence (French, British, American, Soviet)Germany will pay reparations, demilitarize, and denatifyPoland and other E. European nations will be allowed to have free and democratic electionsStalin agrees to enter the war against the Japanese and join the UN as Security Council (Veto Power)R grants S land and influence in Asia

  • Decolonization

    All colonies were freed after WWII
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    Potsdam Conference

    Stalin, Churchill, Clement Atlee, Harry Truman meet in final conference of the warRelation worsened

  • Truman Doctrine

    Support countries that reject Communism
    Greece and Turkey

  • The Marshall Plan

    Provided 12.5 Billion to help rebuild Western Europe
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    Berlin Blockade

    Aim: Force W powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire cityAllies airlifted supplies into the city for nearly a year until they gave up

  • Creation of NATO (North American Treaty Organization)

    US and its allies create a mutual defense pact in 1949 called the North American Treaty OrganizationAn attack on any member nation will be met with a response of physical force.
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    COMECON

    COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) established by USSR to aid Communist countries
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    Korean War

    N Korea invades the South in 1950 with the use of Soviet weapons and suppliesUS/UN forces aid S Korea and push NK back up
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    Arms Race

    1949, Soviets successfully test atomic bombUS develop more powerful nuclear weapon called a Hydrogen Bomb1952 1000times more powerful than atomic bombs in Japan1953 USSR Hydrogen BombMAD Mutually Assured Destruction
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    The Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw PactUSSR creates its own defense pact in 1955
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    Space Race

    USSR make Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICMB’s) launches first ever satellite ‘Sputnik’1958 launch own satellite1961 Soviet Yuri Gargarin first man to orbit the Earth1962 first American1969 US lands on moonFuture cooperate on space mission

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    US U2 spy plane photographs missile sites being set up missile sites in Communist Cuba. 100 miles from FloridaUSSR secretly supplying and building what US believes nuclear missile silos in Cuba
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    Vietnam War

    Communist N Vietnam supported by Soviets with weapons and moneyS Vietnam supported by US weapon money troopsUS feared spread of CommunismUnpopular War‘Domino Theory’ Cambodia, Laos1969 pulled out troops, but bombed