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Yalta Conference
The conference was an agreement of temporary alignment against the Nazis. The three participants would include; Stalin of the soviet Union, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Franklin Roosevelt of the U.S.A. This is an example of supporting liberal values. The big three are aligning together to free world from Nazi tyranny. -
The Potsdam conference
The big 3 met up to divide postwar Germany amongst themselves. This was seen as expansionism as Stalin wanted to expand his communist sphere of influence. While Britain and the U.S.A aligned with the west side by trading and rebuilding, showing the people the wonders of a capitalist society. France also got a portion of Germany. This restricts people's liberal freedoms, people in east Germany later cannot leave the west. -
Hiroshima Bombing
The allies drop the first Nuclear bomb used in armed combat in history. An allied invasion of Japan would be too costly. The allies called for Japan's surrender, they refused. The bomb was a means to an end of the restriction of people's liberalism. The Japanese empire at the time was under a fascist rule that believed in expansionism. This restricted the liberalism of many people. -
Nagasaki Bombing
3 days after The first Atomic bomb dropped the soviet Union declared war against the Japanese, and the Japanese did not surrender. So the U.S.A dropped a second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The ruler of Japan later called for surrender and ended world war two. Thus making the world free, at a grave cost. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov plan was the Soviet version of the Marshall plan, it's goal was to rebuild the satellite states under the Soviet's sphere of influence. Introduced by Vyacheslav Molotov. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. president Harry Truman established a foreign policy of containment against the soviet union. Although liberalism under U.S.A is less restricting than life under soviet rule, it can be argued that having western society's beliefs introduced actually restricts your own liberal freedom of living your own life with your culture. -
Brussels Treaty
A treaty signed by Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Belgium. The aim of the treaty was to show the world western Europe could work together, this led to the creation of Nato and influenced the U.S. to aid in Europe's defence. This example of alignment was to insure the security of European freedoms. -
The Marshall Plan
The U.S.A foreign policy of alignment, it started in Greece and Turkey. It aimed at rebuilding Europe after the war. Essentially the U.S. aligned with other countries by providing aid, and showing these countries their capitalist way of life. This helped to suppress the Soviet Sphere of Influence. People were generally more free and had their liberalism less restricted under a capitalist society, compared to the Soviet Union's Communism. -
Berlin Block Aid
The Soviet Union blocked the Allies rail and canal access to western Berlin. This forced the allies to deliver supplies for over a year. This took away the west Berliners' freedom to live under western rule, and was the first international crisis after the cold war. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created by the U.S.A Canada, and several western European countries. Alignment between N.A. was to protect North American liberalism, as most people were paranoid of soviet invasion. NA aligning against the Soviet Union. -
The Soviet's Atomic Bomb
The soviets got there first atomic bomb, through members of the manhattan project leaking information to them. This bob would provide deterrence against the U.S.A, now both super powers had nuclear weapons, effectively deterring both powers from waging war. In a way, the bombs allowed people to remain free. They scared one another from using them so people were allowed to live freely. -
Korean War
The Soviets increased their sphere of influence by aligning with North Korea, while the U.S.A contained the Soviet's sphere by aligning with southern Korea. This is a proxy war that contributed to the cold war, being the cold war. The Korean war was between North and South Korea. -
The Death of Stalin
Stalin died, allowing Nikita Khrushchev tolled the Communist party during the cold war. Under his rule he De-Thawed, by relaxing tensions between other nations, and relieving societal conditions in Russia. Effectively giving the Russians more liberalism. He literally gave them more liberty by freeing people from Gulags. -
Warsaw pact
A collective treaty of alignment between the soviet Union and seven eastern European satellite states. This was to ensure Stalin's communist sphere of Influence in Europe. It also could be seen as an act of deterrence against the west. " we have allies too, do not start any war business " This was the communists' way of insuring their own far leftist freedom against the west, as the western ideology was viewed as wrong. -
Vietnam War
The communist North Vietcong, backed by soviet Russia fought against south Vietnam, backed by the capitalist Americans. This was another proxy war between the U.S and the Soviet Union, an attempt to contain communism by the U.S., and a way of expanding the soviet sphere of influence for the soviets. In a way, forcing Americas liberalist ideology upon vVetnam, actually restricted their freedoms. If they wanted to be communist, they should be free to do so. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarians sought to liberate themselves and revolted against the government that was a Soviet Satellite state. They were successful, and even left the Warsaw pact. Until the Soviets invaded again. The Soviets sought to maintain their sphere of influence, and the Hungarians fought for their liberalism. The soviets regained control. -
NORAD
U.S.A and Canada set up an air defense against a potential soviet attack, if it came it would come across the arctic. This was the U.S. and Canada aligning against the Soviets, in an effort to protect their own freedoms. -
Fidel Castros Taking Over
Fidel Castro took over Cuba and led it under a one party communist state. This increased The Soviet Union's sphere of influence, as there was now another communist country in the world. Castro was a dictator and later goes on to restrict the Liberalism of his people by overseeing human rights violations, and so forth. -
The Bay of Pigs
This was a proxy war led by the U.SA's CIA against Fidel Castro's communist party in Cuba. This was an attempt at containing communism, by preventing the spread of this ideology in the Americas. This proxy war failed Miserably for the U.S.A.. Although the Americans viewed communism as a threat, attempting to force others to not follow an ideology can be seen as restricting the Cuban's own liberalism. -
Creation Of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was created to keep out " the western fascists" although it was really created to keep east Berliners from defecting to the west side. The Soviets created this wall as a means of upholding their sphere of influence. The wall restricted the Eastern Berliners liberalism, they were not free to go as they please. They were trapped. -
The End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called for the nuclear weapons to be removed from Cuba, thus resolving the conflict. This can be seen as direct alignment between Cuba and the Soviet Union against the U.S.A. Bringing such weapons closer to the U.S.A in acts of deterrence warded brinkmanship, as this rose international tensions for 13 days, until the conflict was resolved. It was seen as a direct threat to the U.S.A's liberty, when there were missiles closer to the U.S., Soviet Nukes. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
The objective with this treaty is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and weapons technology. This was sought to be done by focusing on peaceful nuclear energy. This is a form of Detente, as this could be seen as a from of talks and exchanges that lessen tension, and are to bring about peace. -
Afghansistan/Soviet War
The democratic republic government of Afghanistan was backed by the Soviet Union, they fought against insurgent groups backed by the U.S.A. This is yet another proxy war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Communism was extremely unpopular in Afghanistan as religion was a problem in Communist society. The U.S. successfully contained the Communist sphere of influence. -
Solidarity in Poland
A movement of the first trade union in any country under the Warsaw pact that had a trade union that was not under communist control. This was done through civil solidarity, advocating and being civil to assure their ideas and get their ideas across. By advocating workers rights etc. This was a step in making Poland more free, as a planned economy restricts the Liberalism of people. -
Berlin Wall Falling
The cold war began to thaw in Europe, the spokesperson of the East Berlin GDR proclaimed Berliners could cross the border at midnight. The soviet sphere of influence was steady decreasing, and the German people were now free to travel in all of Germany. Their liberalism was increased massively by this. West Berliners had more liberty, now this was shared amongst the Germans. -
Czechoslovakia Revolution
Also known as the velvet revolution, the Czechs peacefully demonstrated against the one party communist state, they were successful. The Soviet sphere of influence was decreasing. -
The End of the Cold War
After the Berlin wall fell in 1989, the cold war was basically over. It was for sure over in 1991 the the soviet Union dissolved into it's component republics. No more Sphere of Soviet Influence. Now the Russians and the once Soviet satellite states are free to enjoy their liberalism, as they see fit.
