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The Cold War

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THE COLD WAR

BY: HUNTER JONES
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1945

THE YALTA CONFERENCE (THE COLD WAR BEGINS)
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  • Held February 4-11, 1945
  • Purpose was to discuss post-war reorganization of Europe
  • Each representative had their own agenda for their personAl gains
  • Roosevelt wanted soviet participation in war against Japan and in the United Nations
  • Churchill suggested free elections and a democratic government for the ussr
  • Stalin demanded control of poland and communist political influence
  • Stalin caused tensions between both the us and britain by not following through on the proposition of free elections, therefore spreading communism throughout eastern europe
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1945

THE US DROPS THE FIRST ATOM BOMB ON JAPAN, ENDING WW2
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  • August 6, 1945
  • President Truman felt invading Japan would result in numerous American casualties
  • He ordered the atomic bomb to be utilized
  • The first bomb, carried by the enola Gay, obliterated 4 square miles of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people
  • The second bomb, dropped three days later on the city of Nagasaki, again leveled 4 square miles, killing 40,000 people
  • Japan surrendered two days after the second bombing
  • Not only was the bomb used to end the war with Japan, but also to show the Soviets the powers of mass destruction that the United States Obtained
  • This started the build up of nuclear weapons by both the US and The Soviets
  • Some historians believe that the dropping of these A-bombs was the true start of the Cold War
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1946

WINSTON CHURCHILL DELIVERS THE IRON CURTAIN SPEECH
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  • On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain Speech
  • In his speech, he condemned the Soviets for their communist politics and expansion
  • Churchill also called for a strengthened relationship with the United States (The English-Speaking World)
  • Stalin saw this speech as a message of hostility
  • The US officials worried about being used as a pawn to help the crumbling British Empire
  • This speech brought about tensions between all three powers (Us, Ussr, and Great Britain), further igniting the Cold War
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1947

PRESIDENT TRUMAN INTRODUCES THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
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  • Declared on March 12, 1947
  • This was a US policy to halt Soviet expansion during the Cold War
  • Truman pledged to contain communist expansion and eliminate any threats of communism in free territories
  • This became the Us foreign policy and also established numerous military alliances
  • Gave aid to greece and turkey, angering stalin for he wanted to expand communism into those areas
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1948

THE U.S. ANNOUNCES THE MARSHALL PLAN
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  • Announced on june 5, 1949
  • Also known as the European Recovery Program
  • The US pledged seventeen billion dollars to europe to rebuild after WWII
  • Main goal was to prevent communist expansion in all parts of europe, which further angered stalin
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1948

COMMUNISTS RISE TO POWER IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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  • Czechoslovakia was taken over by the communist regime on February 25, 1948
  • President Eduard Benes formed a coalition of leftists and
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1948

BERLIN BLOCKADE AND AIRLIFT
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1949

NATO ESTABLISHED
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1949

SOVIETS TEST THEIR FIRST A-BOMB
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1949

MAO ZEDONG TAKES CONTROL OF CHINA
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1950

SENATOR MCCARTHY BEGINS COMMUNIST WITCH HUNT
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1950

KOREAN WAR
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1951-1953

JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBURG TRIED AND EXECUTED FOR ESPIONAGE
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1955

WARSAW PACT FORMED
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1956

HUNGARIAN REBELLION PUT DOWN BY SOVIETS
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1957

SPUTNIK LAUNCHED: SPACE RACE BEGINS
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1958

KHRUSHCHEV DEMANDS NATO TO WITHRDAW TROOPS FROM BERLIN
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1959

FIDEL CASTRO RISES TO POWER IN CUBA
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1960

U-2 INCIDENT
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1960

JFK ELECTED
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1961

BAY OF PIGS INVASION
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1961

BERLIN WALL BUILT
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1961

U.S. SENDS ADVISORS TO VIETNAM
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1962

CUBAN MISSIE CRISIS
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1963

JFK ASSASSINATED
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