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The Potsdam Conference
"It is a conference organized by three of the victorious Allied powers of the Second World War to determine the fate of enemy nations" -
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The first Council of Foreign Ministers in London
The meeting between the foreign ministers of the USA, the USSR, Great Britain, France and China -
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Message to Congress on Atomic Bomb by the U.S President Truman
"The president called for a foreign policy build on military power" + "question of the international control and development of this newly discovered energy" + december "public statement > the United States would not cooperate seriously with the Kremlin on the question of atomic control and would not use its bomb monopoly as a negotiating tool to secure Soviet concessions either" -
Creation of the UN institution
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Navy Day Address - Speech by US President Truman
On the victory of the country in the Second World War, and talked about the freedom of the people to govern themselves and international cooperation in economic issues. -
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The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers (Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers)
"It was the meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, represented by James F. Byrnes, the United Kingdom, represented by Ernest Bevin, and the Soviet Union, represented by Vyacheslav Molotov. Molotov rejected the U.S. negotiation proposal (about the atomic bomb)." -
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Iran crisis
The date given by the Iranian government accepted by Great Britain and the USSR for the withdrawal of the allied troops was fixed at March 2, 1946. Stalin doesn't want to withdraw his troops and wants the recognition of Azerbaijan's autonomy and a part of the oil. Intervention on multiple occasions of the Security Council of the United Nations. Intervention of the American president Truman by threatening with the atomic bomb. -
Pearson's revelation to listeners of Soviet atomic espionage network operating out of Canada
2 weeks later, the Canadian government officially recognized this scandal.
+ "The Pearson address closed" "the possibility of an international cooperation on atomic matter with the USSR" "off for the good." -
Stalin's public speech
"He announced that his government would maintain its wartime (and prewar) policies of state control over the economy and would continue to divert maximum resources toward heavy industry and military production." -
Churchill's speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
He "declared that an "iron curtain" had fallen on Europe, dividing the free people of the West from a tyrannical, totalitarian regime in the East". + "He alerted the West to the worrying advance of communism in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe." -
Baruch Plan at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC)
"The United States would agree to transfer its bomb to the United Nations, but only under certain conditions. First, the UN Security Council would have to begin a process of thorough worldwide inspections to ensure that no state was attempting to build a bomb. Any state caught doing so would be subject to immediate and harsh penalties [..](military attack). Second, no nation on the Security Council would be allowed to use its veto on matters of international atomic control." -
Speech by Secretary of Commerce Wallace at Madison Square Garden
""getting tough" never brought anything real and lasting [...] The tougher we get, the tougher the Russians will get"Truman fired him after
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U.S Midterm Elections
"Republicans had scored major gains, taking control of both houses for the first time since 1928. > More anti-communist than the candidates they replaced" -
The Treaty of Paris
This peace treaty is signed between the Allies of the Second World War with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland. -
The Truman Doctrine speech to Congress
Pleads for financial, economic, military and human aid to Greece and Turkey after the withdrawal of Great Britain's aid so that these countries can remain free and not fall under the totalitarianism of Stalin. -
The X article by Kennan in Foreign Affairs
The containment doctrine
"The Soviet Union would expand its influence unless confronted by American power" -
National Security Act of 1947
"This U.S. federal law reorganizes the U.S. Armed Forces and intelligence services, while reorienting U.S. foreign and defense policy"Created the CIA (September 18th = promulgation date) and the National Security Council
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Lippmann's critique in the New York Herald Tribune
Disagree with the containment policy described by Kennan. For him, diplomacy should not be abandoned.He gave an name to the confrontation : The Cold War
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Tito–Stalin split
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Czechoslovak coup d'état
"The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia, marking the onset of four decades of communist rule in the country" -
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The London Six-Power Conference
"It was held between the three Western occupation forces in Germany after the World War II (United States, Britain and France) and the Benelux countries." > Objective to establish a pro-Western economy in West Germany. -
The Treaty of Brussels
"The Brussels Treaty provides for the organization of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation between its member states, as well as a mutual defense clause. It was signed for 50 years by France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It gave birth to a Western Union which prefigured the Western European Union, it was a purely defensive alliance." -
The European Recovery Program = The Marshall Plan
"This was an American program of loans to various states in Europe to help rebuild cities and facilities bombed during World War II. These loans were conditioned on importing an equivalent amount of American equipment and products." This prevented countries from falling into communism. -
Bird Dog Operation
The entry of a western currency in all of West Germany -
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The Berlin Blokade by the USSR
June 24th physical blockade of Berlin
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The Berlin airlift by the Western Allies
On June 28, the American president Truman answered and refused to abandon Berlin (but no military intervention).
On April 16,the day with the most transfers. -
The U.S Presidential Election
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Creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
"Its an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. NATO constitutes a system of collective security, whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party." -
Creation of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
Grundgesetz
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Creation of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
