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THE COLD WAR- SIDES EAST AND WEST

By ericaboo_

  • Feb-Aug.

    Yalta Conference
    World War II ends in Europe.
    U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
    Potsdam Conference - Truman - Stalin and British divide up Europe

  • Communist gov.

    First East European Communist government set up in Albania.

  • Truman and Poland

    Communists seize power in Poland.
    Truman Doctrine announced.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift begins (ends May 19, 1949)

  • Fighting North Korea

    U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
    (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)