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The Russian A-Bomb
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
The Yalta Conference
The second meeting of the "Big Three" after Tehran took place in the Ukrainian resort town of Yalta between February 4 to 11, 1945. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in hopes of finding an accordance/agreement over the future of Europe after defeating Nazi Germany. Yalta is normally considered as a 'sucess'.Agrements were made over Germany, Japan, Poland and United Nations. -
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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies. The Conference resulted in divisions of Germany through reparations of each allied sides occupation zones, and divisions of European countries between the US and the USSR. Stanlin, Truman and Churchill (replaced by Attle) were at the conference. -
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, against the Empire of Japan -
The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
Iron Curtain Speech (Churchill)
Mind map made by myself about the breakdown of the grand alliance: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lMOXv-s=/ -
London conference
US, Brtian and France met at the london conference to discuss a future german state. -
Cominform
The cominform was establish to promote ideological unity among the communist parties in Europe, All the Soviet bloc communist parties joined, as did the French and Italian parties. -
The Truman Doctrine
In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Truman's address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. -
Marshall plan
It was a massive economic help for European reconstruction that was initially offered to most of European countries, even the communist states. It was soon rejected by the USSR and her satellites. -
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Second London conference
Britian, US, France and Benelux states met to discuss the establimesh to form a separate west German states. On 7 June, Germans in the western zones were granted permission to create a constitution for a democratic, federal west Germany. -
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The Soviet response: The Berlin Blockade-The US response: Berlin Airlift
The russians cut off all lands to West Berlin. This city was a capitalist island or enclave surrounded by the Russian controlled Eastern zone. 2.5 millon West Berliners were now cut off coal, food and other supplies. -
The Establishment of two separte German states
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COMECON
Comecon, byname of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), also called (from 1991) Organization for International Economic Cooperation, organization established in January 1949 to facilitate and coordinate the economic development of the eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc. Comecon’s original members were the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Albania joined in February 1949 but ceased taking an active part at the end of 1961 -
The North Atlantic Teaty Organization (NATO)
The Prague coup and the Berlin blockade inally persuade the US that there was a need to commit formally to the defence of western Europe. The US gradually developed the framework for North Atlantic -western European military alliance with its allies in Europe. -
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The Korean War
The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. Afraid that the US was interested in taking North Korea as a base for operations against Manchuria, the People's Republic of China secretly sent an army across the Yalu River. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea. -
Stalin death
Joseph Stalin, the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke.