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Yalta Conferance
3 leaders of the allies went to somewhere and talked about how they’re going to see the worlddivide germany into four diff zones of influencesplit capital berlin into four zones of influencede-nazify, de-militarize, pay reparationsPoland and other Easter European nations will be allowed to have free and democratic electionsStalin agrees to enter the war against the jp and agrees to join the UN as a member of the Security Council (veto power)Roosevelt grants Stalin more land and influence -
Potsdam Conference
Truman, Stalin, Atlee, Churchill meet in final conferencetrumen tougher at ussrrelations btw western power and soviets worsened since yaltaus tested atomic bomb putting them strongerus/brit argue with ussr about the details of how to divide germany, reparations, russian influence over countries in eastern europestalin agrees free electionsbut, free elections in eastern europe forbiddenstalin “communism and capitalism cannot exist together in this world” -
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China Falls to Communism
-after wwii, civil war raged in china btw mao and jian jieshi. 1946-1949 (since before wwii even started)-south supported financially by u.s. and north by the ussr financially-mao had a stronger army and promised land reform for peasants-jiang’s support declining because of poor economy and political party corruption-china falls to communism and signs treaty of friendship w/ ussrwesterners feared a communist campign to take over the worldthings kind of heat up from here -
Truman Doctrine
says he’s gonna give money to countries that don’t want communism
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Marshall Plan
provided 12.5b to help rebuild w. europe (stop communism)(“seed of totalitarian begins from misery, want,... (not the exact words)”)(u.s. gon trade w/ europe) -
COMECON
comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) established by ussr to aid these countries -
NATO
u.s. gets w/ its allies and creates NATO (defensive)(North American Treaty Organization)(atomic when touch one of its countries?)
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Berlin Blockade
1 of 1st acts cold war agression ussr blocked off acess to west berlin the allied controlled zone (wanted to unify as one)-aim was to force the western powers to allow the soviet zone to start supplying berlin w/ food and fuel thereby giving soviets proactical control over the entire city-in response allies airlifeted supplies into the city for nealy a year until the ussr finally gave up the blockade -
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Arms Race
arms race 1949-1970’s1949, ussr test an atomic bombus vows to develop more powerful nuclear weapon called hydrogen bombmade in 1952. 1000 times more powerful than the atom bombs used in jpstockpiling and had thousands -
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Korean War
-nk invades south in 1950 w/ use of soviet weapons and supplies-u.s./un forces come to the aid of south korea and push nk back up-w/ defeat looking likely ussr commits 300 000 troops to nk and retake seoulkorean war (demo vs comm)why control nk? the north or south kept uneasy peace eagar to obtain more communism made uk full commutanks rolled and went to southu.s. supported south koreatruman feared ussr’s other plans (if had them)un meeting to help south and ussr didn’t go theregenera -
Warsaw Pact
in response, USSR creates its own defence pact in 1955 w/ its member nations in Eastern Europe (the warsaw pact) -
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Space Race
concept-mutually assured destruction: (mad) wasn’t to use but to threaten to use them-ussr develops intercontinental ballisstic missles and launches the 1st ever satellite into space-in 1958 us launches own satellite-kennedy promises to land man on the moon by decade-1961 soviet yuri 1st man to orbit the eath-glenn becomes first american-1979 us on moon-in the future soviets and us co-operate on space missionsstarted to work together -
Cuban Missile crises
1962 spy plane flying over cuba (ussr was shipping missiles to cuba)threat of nuclear war reaches all time high -
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Vietnam War
communist north vietnam supported by ussr w/ weapon and moneysouth vietnam supported by us not only weapons and money but also many troopsus feared the spread of communism and directly involved in an unpopular war (containment)very unpopular in the homefront in the u.s. and is deadly waru.s. lost this war, but to america would say we just decided to pull out1964-1968 pulled out troops and dropped bombs*domino theory: lot of diff southeast asian countries us thought that if vietnam got caug -
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New Cold War
Even after the treaties they remained enemies, and when USSR invaded Afriganistan, it started. -
End
1989 presidents of us and ussr held meeting on malta-agreed that cold war was over and that tehy would make cuts to forces