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Ideological differences
The USA thought that the USSR wanted to make the world communist.
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Ideological differences
The USSR thought that the USA wanted to make every country capitalist and destroy communism.
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Ideological differences
Causes suspisons after WW2 .
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Yalta- 1945
Conference between: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin (during the war)
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Yalta - 1945
Agree on most things e.g. Germany being divided, create UN, countries in Eastern Europe to hold free elections and Nazi war criminals to be punished.
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Potsdam - 1945
Conference between Atlee, Truman, Stalin (after hitler died)
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Potsdam - 1945
Truman and Stalin fall out
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Potsdam - 1945
Stalin is taking over Eastern Europe and breakign Yalta agreement.
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Potsdam - 1945
Truman tells Stalin about the atom bomb which is threatening.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945
Dropping of atomic bomb on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945
Ends WW2, but wass partly to scare and threaten Stalin and thr USSR
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Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe - 1948-49
Stalin uses his armies to take controle over countries in Eastern Europe and make them communist.
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Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe - 1948-49
Stalin doesn't allow theses countries fair elections e.g. Poland and Czechoslovakia
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Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe - 1948-49
Stalin is breaking the agreement made at Yalta which really angers the US. Chuchill describes it as an " Iorn Curtain".
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The Truman Doctrine - 1947
Truman helps Greece and Turkey resist communism.
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The Truman Doctrine - 1947
It promised to help any country that felt threatened by "Outside pressure" (meaning communism). The USSR sees this as a decleration of war.
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The Marshall Plan - 1948
The USA gave $17 billion to solve Europes financal problems.
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The Marshall Plan - 1948
The plan was desinged to stop poverty and therefore stop communism from spreading. Stalin is very angry and calls it "dollar imperialisation"- bribing countries for support.
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The Berlin Blockade and Airlift - 1948-49
Stalin got angry with the USA helping German recovery. He wants Germany to be weak.
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The Berlin Blockade and Airlift - 1948-49
Stalin prevented any supplies from getting to Berlin by rail or road.
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The Berlin Blockade and Airlift - 1948-49
USA fly in supplies around the clock and after 318 days Stalin gave in.
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The Berlin Blockade and Airlift - 1948-49
First major crisis of the Cold War and makes tension worse.
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NATO - 1949
NATO means North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
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NATO - 1949
NATO was a military treaty signed by 12 countries in april 1949
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NATO - 1949
NATO was set up to protect countries from communism.
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NATO - 1949
Stalin sees it as an agressive organisation set up to eventually attack the USSR.
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Korean War - 1950-53
UN (led by the USA) fights communists in North Korea after they invad the capatilist south.
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Korean War - 1950-53
UN success leads to china geting involved.
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Korean War - 1950-53
Eventually the South was saved from communism after 3 years of fighting.
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Korean War - 1950-53
Korea remained split in 1/2 (Communist North and Capatalist South).
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Korean War - 1950-53
Cold War has now spread to the Far East making it an even bigger problem.
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The Thaw and Peaceful Coexisistance
In 1953 Stalin dies. Khrushchev became the new leader of the USSR.
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The Thaw and Peaceful Coexisistance
Khrushchev had an idea of peaceful coexisistance.
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The Thaw and Peaceful Coexisistance
Also know as the "thaw" this was when the USA and the USSR tried to ease tentions.
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The Warsaw Pact - 1955
West Germany became part of NATO.
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The Warsaw Pact - 1955
The USSR felt threatened and khrushchev created the Warsaw Pact to protect the communist countries.
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The Warsaw Pact - 1955
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between the Soviet Bloc (communis countries in eastern Europe)
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Hungarian Uprising - 1956
The people of Hungary rebelled against the harsh rule of Rakosi.
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Hungarian Uprising - 1956
Nagy was the man who wanted to make Hungary a freer place and relax communist ideas.
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Hungarian Uprising - 1956
The USSR got involved and eventually brutally crushed the uprising and shot Nagy.
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Nuclear Arms Race - 1945 -60
In 1952, the USA tested the Hydrogen bomb. USSR got it in 1953.
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Nuclear Arms Race - 1945 -60
In 1957 the USSR used a rocket to put a satallite in space. The first ever satallite was called Sputnik 1. It could also carry nuclear weapons a huge disdtance.
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Nuclear Arms Race - 1945 -60
America developed its own long range missiles in 1957. This made the Cold War worse because both could launch unstoppable missiles if a war started.
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