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Alliance between US and the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union and the US formed an alliance during the World War II after Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. Before they became an allies, they were enemies due to the different idealogies. which is an idea and belief about political and ecnomic systems. But after Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, they tried to defeat the Hitler. -
Conference in Yalta
There was a conference in Yalta, which British prime minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet premier Josef Stalin agreed on a military plan to end the war and a sunsequent joint occupation of Germany. -
Defeating Germany
After Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Stalin signed an agreement to end the war and a subsequent joint occupation of Germany, Germany got defeated by the allies. -
Promise of Stalin
Starlin promised to allow free elections in Poland, with Roosevelt's desire for an independent and democratic Eastern Europe. Also he promised to enter the Asian war agains the Japan. -
Soviet controlled governments
Stalin estsblished Soviet controlled governments in Eastern European countries. It became clear that postwar Europe would be divided into two spheres of influence, East and West, which paralleled the positions of Allied troops following World War I. Also the US objected to these totalitarian. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States successfully tested the world's first atomic bomc, or A-bomb in New Mexico. Later, the United States dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Negasaki. From this, thousands of Japanese were killed and ended the war against Japan. -
Winston Chuchill's speech
Winston Churchill visited the United Sates and delivered his Iron Curtain speech. The speech was the division of Europe The iron curtain of Soviet controlled countries in Eastern countries in Eastern Europe ran along the western border of East Germany. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Albania, and along the southern borders of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria -
Marshall Plan
US leaders promoted the Marsall Plan as an effort to promote world peace and stability. The United States introduced the Marshall Plan to provide $17 billion in aid to the economic recovery of Europe. According to the plan, when accepting American loans, European countries afreed top buy American products, it also helped to strengthen the U.S. ecnomy. But the Soviet Union refused to let Eastern European nations accept loans from the Marshall Plan. -
Greece and Turkey
The governments of Greece and Turkey were fighting because of the communist rebellions. Great Britain had been supporting te Greek government in its fighting against the communist. Howeverr, the British funding got lower and they asked US for the help. -
Truman Doctrine's speech
Truman Doctrine talked about the supporting free people who are attempted by armed minorities and his speech became the outline of Cold War policy of containment -
Plans for a new form of currency in Germany
In 1948, France, Great Britain, and the United Sates announced plans to introduce a new form of currency in Germany. The Soviets formally withdrew from the allied control council. Whem the allies were introduced, Soviets protested the blockde of Berlin. -
Blockade of Berlin
When the allies introduced the new currency in West Berlin, the Soviets protested by instituting a fomal blockade of Berlin in 1948, the inhabiants of West Berlin from all supplies of fuel, power, and food. -
Airlifting supplies
In August 1948, the United Sates began sending supplies to Berlin in an attempt to aid West Berlin without starting an armed conflict with the Sovie Union -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The US nation joined the Western nations like Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO's member nations formed a military allaince to protect each other from Soviet aggression. -
American Monopoly
The American monopoly (total control by one group) on nuclear weapons ended in 1949 when the Soviets perfected their own. -
Airlifting supplies to Berlin
United States began airlifting supplies to Berlin in an attempt to aid West Berlin without starting an armed conflict with the Soviet Union. After an year, Stalin responded all routed into Berlin. -
Communist Revolution in China
Mao Zedong led the Communist Revoution in China. Mao's communist government allied itself with the Soviet Union and both countries signed a mutual defense and economic aid agreement. China was allies with US during the World War II against Japan and US was supporting Chinese nationalist government defeated by Mao during the Communist Revolution. -
The Korean War
The Korean War in 1950 increased American over the spread of communism in Asia. After World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into two countries, North and South. Soviet was supporting North Korea and the US and United Nations were supporting South Korea. -
Invasion in Korea
With arms provided by the Soviets, South Korea was invaded by North Korea. The United Natopns condemned the invasion and authorized sending troops to South Korea. When 1 million of Chinese were sent to the war, US troops were given back to South Korea but they already lost Seoul, which is the capital of South Korea. -
Nuclear weapons
The United States successfully tested an even more powerful nuclear advice and the hydrogen bomb. -
Build nuclear weapons
US was more poweful on nuclear devices when the tested. Both sides are now competed in a race to build enough nuclear weapons to defeat the other in the event of the war. Each power was armed with enough destructive power to destroy an entire continent and the world. -
End of the Korean War
The Korean War ended in 1953. During the war, Truman disagreed on having a substitute for the war. He limited the war and he feared that the Soviets might be drawn into the fighting and the onset of a thrid world war. However, MacArthur was fired for taking his stand public when his troops were pushed to North Korea. -
Alliance
The Soviet Union formed a similar military alliance with Eastern European nations such as Czechosdlovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, known as the Warsaw Treaty Organization, or Warsaw Pact. -
Hungarians' fear
Hugarian citizens began rioting and demanded more freedom from thier Communist government. They threatened to return a parliamentary democracy if their demands were not met. Hugarians sent the letter to US for help but the President of US, Eisenhower, did not even consder about sending troops to Hungary because of the fear of starting World War II. Few days later, Hungary was crashed by Soviet Union and they became as a Soviet- style Communist nation. -
The Berlin Wall
Berlin remained a divided city, and the Soviet build a wall called the Berlin Wall, between East and West Berlin to prevent people from escaping t the West. -
Controlled by Soviet Union
In 1968, the Soviet Union stopped a similar uprising in Czechosovakia. Most of Eastern Europe stayed firmly under Soviet control until the late 1980s.
