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Potsdam Conference 2
Poland was given part of Germany. Then there was the Last conference where everyone was able to work together, division between Soviet and the US. Because of the war was ending the allies needed to end (Potsdam Conference). -
Potsdam Conference 1
President Truman, British Prime minister Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin discussed peace settlements but there wasn’t an attempt to write peace treaties. The main issue was the administration of defeated Germany and the continuing military campaign against Japan. President Truman told Stalin about the (the atomic bomb) that the United States intended to use against Japan. Four occupied zones allied countries to take reparation from the zone they occupied. -
Berlin Airlift 1
After the second war had ended The U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. The crisis started on June 24, 1948, The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin. This event ended on May 12, 1949. The crisis was a result of taking occupation policies and growing tensions between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift 2
In March, it was served to harden the lines of an more and more divided international order. In June, Secretary of State George Marshall the Marshall Plan which was not only to support economic regaining in Western Europe. Early in 1948, the United States, United Kingdom, and France secretly began to plan the creation of a new German state made up of the Western Allies’ occupation zones. -
Berlin Airlift 3
In March, the Soviets discovered these plans. The United States and United Kingdom had few immediate choices if hostilities started. Almost to the end of the blockade, the Western Allies made the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). After the blockade the West Germany was established (Berlin Airlift). -
Korean War 1
On June 1950 to July 1953 the north Koreans and the south Koreans fought in the Korean war. Other countries such as the US was involved. The North Koreans invaded southward across the 38th parallel. This was the start of the Korean war. Later on The north Koreans and the Chinese formed an allies together and planned to invade the south Koreans once again. -
Korean war 2
Finally on July 27, 1953, representatives of both sides signed an agreement. After the war many south Koreans, Chinese, north Koreans and Americans lives were taken. Because of the Chinese and the north Koreans attack on the south Koreans was weakened neither sides lost much ground. So instead of fighting they signed an agreement (Korean War). -
NATO 1
NATO controlled the Western democracies. In 1955 the Soviet Union wanted to make a strong defense alliance against any potential military or economic threats from the West, especially with a rearmed West Germany as a member of NATO. -
NATO 2
And also another reason why they want to strengthen the hold of the Soviet Union over its Eastern European satellites to prevent their seeking close ties with the West. On November 1990 Warsaw Pact and NATO leaders declared that they were “no longer adversaries,” ending the Cold War (Warsaw Pact). -
Warsaw Pact 1
The Warsaw Pact was for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wanted to make a strong alliance against any potential military. They also wanted to strengthen the hold of the Soviet Union over its Eastern European satellites and to prevent their close ties with the west. The spirit of the soviet troops led to a revival nationalism and expression towards the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact 2
There was an uprising in Hungary that was quickly put down by the Soviets. Czechoslovakia we're called after nation’s government had started to rise restrains on personal freedom. Treaty was renewed and dissolved so they needed to build strength and to be tied together (Warsaw Pact). -
Vietnam War 1
Vietnam was split into two parts, North Vietnam and south Vietnam. North Vietnam wanted then and south Vietnam to join back hands but south Vietnam disapproved of that. Later they went into battle and the US was involved with the south but the north ended up winning the war even though it was more of the south. Before all of this happened French and Vietnam when it was a whole were thinking about what they should do with Vietnam and others were involved. -
Vietnam War 2
And that's when they came up with Vietnam being divided into two parts. French soon left the country because of the things that were happening in Vietnam. -
Vietnam War 3
Later on the civil war started, more US troops came and more Vietnam troops left which ended the war. 1.3 million Vietnam soldiers and about 58,00 us troops were killed. And 2 million people not fight in the war were killed also. The reason of the war ending because more US troops were coming in and more of the Vietnam troops were leaving. (Vietnam) -
Suez Crisis 1
Crisis was with the middle east, the british and the French was with the suez canal and the Egyptian President was Gamal Abdel who nationalized the suez canal was owned by the british and the french. Egypt promised, in response to egypt’s growing ties with czechoslovakia and the soviet union. Some israel’s invaded egypt and moved toward the canal. -
Suez crisis 2
Because the British and French forces landed at Port Said and Port Fuad and began occupying the canal zone the move was soon met by growing opposition at home and by U.S.-sponsored resolutions in the UN which quickly made Anglo-French action stop. British and french less fortunate lost most of their control in the middle east. (Suez Crisis) -
Hungarian Revolution 1
A rising tide of trouble and disaffection in Hungary broke out into active fighting. Rebels won the first stage of the revolution. And Nagy became premier, approved to establish a Nagy declared Hungarian neutrality and attracted to the United Nations for help. On Nov. 4, 1956, the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution, and Nagy was executed for treason in 1958. -
Hungarian Revolution 2
Stalinist-type domination and exploitation did not come back, and Hungary then experienced a steady evolution toward some internal autonomy (Hungarian Revolution). -
Space Race Sputnik 1
On October 4,1957, the soviet union launched the earth’s first artificial satellite and the take of was an success. Because The fact that the Soviets launch and other things were successful it fed fears that the U.S. military had mostly fallen behind in developing new technology. Later on the US build a satellite and launched it and it was an success. The success of the sputnik had a major impact on the cold war and the united states that because of the success many were impacted. -
Space Race Sputnik 2
They Feared that they had fallen behind that led the U.S. policymakers to pick up the speed space and weapons programs. Finally, lawmakers and political campaigners in the United States successfully utilized the fear of a “missile gap” growing between U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals in the 1960 presidential election, which brought John F. Kennedy to power over Eisenhower’s vice president, Richard Nixon. (Sputnik). -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Date: October 1962
The US (John F. Kennedy) agrees with soviet leader Nikitok and offers to remove the Cuban missile in exchange for the US promise not to invade Cuba. President Kennedy secretly agreed to remove the U.S missile from Turkey. The U.S and the Soviet Union and their allies were engaged in the Cold War. Because the plans had shut down for the U.S the invasion was called off. Both superpower signed a treaty related to the Nuclear weapons. -
Six Day war 1
The six-day war but was also called June War or Third Arab-Israeli War lasted from June 5-10 of 1967. The main reasons of this war was because of the attacks conducted against Israel. May 14, 1967, Nasser mobilized Egyptian forces in the Sinai. May 18 Nasser formally requested the removal of the UNEF stationed there; and on May 22 he closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, therefore instituting an effective blockade of the port city of Elat in southern Israel. -
Six day war 2
Later on King Ḥussein of Jordan arrived in Cairo to sign a mutual defense pact with Egypt, placing Jordanian forces under Egyptian command also attracting Iraq who later on joined the allies too. Israel planned a sudden preemptive air assault that destroyed more than 90 percent Egypt’s air force on the tarmac. The UN Security Council called for a Ceasefire on June 7 that was instantly accepted by Israel and Jordan on the following day. -
Six Day War 3
Syria held out and continued to shell villages in northern Israel. The Arab countries’ losses in the conflict were disastrous. since the conflict created hundreds of thousands of refugees and brought more than one million Palestinians in the occupied territories under Israeli rule. Jordan west bank had left 18 dead and 54 wounded (six-day war). -
Glasnost & Perestroika 1
The policy was organized by the Soviet Union which was owned by head Soviet Union ruler Gorbachev. Gorbachev launched glasnost following introduction of perestroika. He also dramatically enlarged individual freedom of expression in the country. Earlier before everything happened Gorbachev introduced the concept of perestroika. He decentralized economic controls and encouraged enterprises to become self financing. -
Glasnost and Perestrokia 2
Fundamental changes to the political structure had occurred like: the power of the Communist Party was reduced, and multicandidate elections took place. So now that a new parliament, the Congress of People’s Deputies, was created, congresses were established in each Soviet republic as well. Elections to these bodies presented voters with a choice of candidates, including non communists, though the Communist Party continued to dominate the system. (Glasnost) (Perestroika)
