Coldwar

The Cold War (1943-1949)

By rodina

  • The Tehran Conference

    The Tehran Conference
    Ended: December 1st 1943
    Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met at Tehran and reached some definite and some principal agreements focused on a strategy to win world war 2.

  • The Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference
    Ended: February 12th 1945
    Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met again at Yalta to further discuss war related issues such as how Germany would be dealt with after it's defeat.

  • The Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference
    Ended: August 2nd 1945
    Between this conference and the previous one President Truman replaced Roosevelt and Attlee replaced Churchill whilst Stalin remained the same. This change in leaders heavily increased tensions as neither leaders had dealt with one another prior to this.

  • USA Drops Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima

    USA Drops Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima

  • USA Drops Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki

    USA Drops Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki

  • WW2 Armistice Signed

  • Japan Officially Surrenders

  • The Long Telegram

    Kennan reported that the Stalin wanted to see the destruction of Capitalism: worrying the USA.

  • Chruchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Chruchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  • The Novikov Telegram

    Novikov claimed that the US wanted to use it's military power to dominate the world and that the American public was being prepared for war.

  • The Truman Doctrine

    Key aims: The world had a choice between communism and democracy; the USA would fight for liberty wherever it was threatened; and Communism shouldn't be allowed to grow and gain territory.

  • The Marshall Aid Plan

    Committed $13 billion to rebuild the shattered economy of Europe. In order for EU countries to qualify they had to agree to trade freely with America thus benefiting the American economy as well.

  • Cominform: The Communist Information Bureau

    An international association run by the USSR to represent communism.

  • The Berlin Blockade

    Ended: May 12th 1948
    Stalin cut off all land routes across soviet controlled Germany into Berlin.

  • The Berlin Airlift

    Ended: September 30th 1949
    In response to the the West had no problem importing products through air.

  • Comecon: The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

    This was Stalin's answer to the Marshall Plan. It aimed to encourage economic development in Eastern European countries.

  • NATO

    NATO
    Members: USA, UK. Canada, West Germany (1955), Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg and Denmark.