Who was to blame for the cold war?

By SamGreen

  • Communist revolution in Russia

    In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a communist state.

  • Nazi soviet pact with Nazi Germany.

    They made a peace for 10 years and agreed that they would jointly invade Poland.

  • The A-Bomb

    An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.

    Churchill used the term "iron curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe: The Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College.

  • Currency change in the western zone.

    Change in currency

  • The Berlin blockade begins

  • NATO is founded

  • The Berlin blockade is ended

    The Berlin blockade is ended.

  • West Germany is formed

    West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany

  • The USSR detonates its first A-Bomb

  • Marshall aid

    Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan on April 3, 1948, granting $5 billion in aid to 16 European nations.

  • Warsaw defence treaty

    An alliance between communist countries in Eastern Europe.