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Yalta Conference
Who? The Head of Government of the United States, United Kingdom & Soviet Union.
What? The purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization.
When? After WW2
Where? Near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union within the Livadia, Yusupov, and Vorontsov Palaces.
What Effect?The Yalta Conference helped lead to the Cold War by giving the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe. -
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Potsdam Conference
Who?The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill[
What?gathered to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany.
When? Nine weeks after Germany had surrender
Where? Cecilienhof, Potsdam, Germany
What effect? Creating Spheres of influence -
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Hiroshima Bombing
Who? US
What?The US dropped nuclear bombs with the consent of the UK.
When?During the final stage of World War II
Where? Japanese Cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
What effect? Upset the USSR -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Who? US
When? During the final stage of World War II
What? Us dropped Nuclear bombs
Where? Nagasaki
What effect? upset the USSR -
Molotov Plan
Who?Soviet Union
What?to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.
When? After ww2
Where? Eastern Europe / USSR
What effect?caused the Cold War to become a reality in the lives of people who lived in the countries -
Truman Doctrine
Who? US president Harry S. Truman
When? During the cold war
What?American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Where? Greece and Turkey
What effect?Stopped the Soviets from getting bigger -
Brussels Treaty
Who? UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands
What?Creating a collective defense alliance
Where?Brussels, Belgium
What effect? -
Marshall Plan
who? Truman
when?
where?US
what? US, Western European Recovery Program
Effect?Keeping the Capitalists in their spheres of influence. -
Berlin Block aid
Who?Soviet Union
What?the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
where? Europe
Effect?Increased Tensions between capitalist and communist -
NATO
who?US France Italy Canada etc
what?Treaty of alliance will all northern countries
Where? US
Effect? Northern Territories siding together against the communist. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear Weapons
Who?Soviet Union
What? The soviet scientist were on a nuclear arm race with the US
When? During ww2
Where? USSR
Effect? Began a competition of who's better -
Korean War
Who? North Korea(Soviet Union) and South Korea(US)
What? North Korea invaded South Korea
Where? Korea
Effect? created an obvious Division -
Fidel Castro Taking over
Who? Fidel Castro
What?Established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista
When? 1959
Where?Cuba
Effect? Creating a communist territory too close to the main capitalists. -
Stalin's Death
Who?Stalin
Where? Moscow Russia
What? Cerebral Hemorrhage
Effect? End of the technical side of the cold war -
Warsaw Pact
Who?Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe
What? a collective defense treaty
Where?Warsaw
Effect? Basically a contract that tied every communist group together. -
Vietnam War
Who? North Vietnam,South Vietnam and the United States.
what? North vietnam (communist) against South Vietnam and the united states(capitalist)
WHen?
Where?South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand
Effect? They went to war and many people lost their lives. -
Hungarian Revolution
Who? Hungarian citizens, Hungarian Government
What?Was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies
Where?Hungary
Effect?Sphere of influence of the communist is shrunken. -
NORAD
WHo? Northern countries such as the U.S and Canada
What?North American Aerospace Defense Command,conducts aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning in the defense of North America
Where?US
Effect?Created a air border with the soviets and others. -
Bay of Pigs
Who?US
What?a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
Where?Cuba
Effect?Major failure of the US to de-communist. -
End of Cuban Missile Crisis
Who? Soviet leader (Cuba) and the US
WHat?Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty.
Where?Cuba
Effect? US giving up Cuba on becoming capitalist. -
Nuclear Arms Treaty
Who? US, UK and the Soviet Union
WHat?is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
Where? United Nations headquarters in New York
Effect?Made everyone more peaceful -
Afghanistan/Soviet war
Who?Afghanistan government and foreign mercenaries
What?Soviets were afraid of the lost of communism in afghanistan so they went to war against some uprising groups who were less of a communist.
Where?Afghanistan
Effect? Increase In Communist -
Solidarity in Poland
Who?Lech Wałęsa( labour activist in poland)
What? A anti-Communist union within the soviet territory
When?
Where?Poland
Effect? Disrespect to the soviets and less communist bubble -
Creation of Berlin wall
Who?German democratic Rebuplic
What? West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin.
Where? Berlin
Effect?Physical division -
Berlin Wall Falling
Who?Poland & Hungary government and their citizens
What? Government announced that they can cross the borders People started to break the wall down.
When?
Where? Berlin
Effect? It showed peace or a neutrality -
Czechoslovakia revolution
Who?Soviets and the citizens
What?Collapse of communist regime in Czechoslovakia
Where? Czechoslovakia,
Effect?smaller communist bubble -
The End of Cold War
Who? Soviet Union
What? the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.
Where?Eastern Europe
Effect? Stop Communism gaining power in the west.
