Cold+War

Colleen Adams

Cold War (beginning to end)

Beginning (what caused it)
 * Yalta Conference - Germany divided into 4 regions controlled by, U.S.S.R., U.S., France, and Britain. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, were the people that attended the conference and discuses Postwar
 * Iron Curtain Speech - Churchill stated that Europe is being divided along ideological lines
 * Truman Doctrine - aided nations to help resist communist takeover
 * Marshall Plan - aided countries but only using U.S. products
 * Molotov Plan - Soviet version of Molotov Plan
 * Berlin Blockade - Soviets stopped trade with their land
 * Berlin Airlift - to give supplies to West Berlin
 * NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization, created military alliance with non-communists
 * The Soviet Union Tests the Bombs - created and tested atomic bomb
 * China falls to communism - China Becomes Communist Government
 * Korean War - North Korea Communist, South Korea democratic, fighting over which government to take

Middle
 * Warsaw Pact - counteract NATO in U.S.S.R. form
 * The invasion of Hungary - Hungary rebelled but was soon recaptured into communism by U.S.S.R.
 * Suez Crisis - U.S.S.R. helped Egypt economically after U.S said they would no longer help them
 * Sputnik Launched - launched satellite, U.S. retorted by trying to make their own satellite to launch into space
 * Fidel Castro, leader of Cubs - Cuba becomes communist under his rule, and is backed up by the U.S.S.R.
 * U-2 Spy Plane - this plane was captured by the U.S.S.R. and belong to the U.S
 * Berlin Wall - prevented East from trading with West Berlin
 * Bay of Pigs - Cuban revolution under Castro and was a disaster

End
 * Cuban Missile Crisis - U.S. supplied Turkey with nuclear weapons so U.S.S.R. thought it right for Cuba to have nuclear weapons since they are close to the U.S.but was able to avoid conflict because U.S. mad a blockade and did not allow U.S.S.R. to get to Cube and agreed to take back their nuclear weapons
 * Invasion of Czechoslovakia - Dubchev created the Prague Spring, or a more relaxed communism in Check, U.S.S.R. got word of it and restored Check to communist nation
 * Gorbachev - when he came to power in the U.S.S.R. he created a more relaxed communism, creating new reforms like the glasnost and perestroika, and then talked to Reagan (U.S. president)
 * Berlin Wall falling - when Gorbachev and Reagan had a meeting they discussed the Cold War and decided to end it, it symbolically ended it when they destroyed the Berlin Wall

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