Cold War: Conflict and Tension between East and West

Stalin became the Soviet leader

1924

Russian Revolution

October 1917

Yalta Conference

4th-11th February 1945

Yalta discussion points

Peace in Europe
Germany split
UN created

Potsdam Conference

July 26, 1945

Potsdam Agreements

Germany will be divided as discussed at Yalta
Germans living in Eastern Europe returned to Germany
Nazi party banned

Leaders at Yalta?

Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

Leaders at Potsdam?

Attlee, Truman, Stalin

The first atomic bomb dropped

August 6, 1945

Location of first drop

Hiroshima from plane Enola Gay

Second bomb dropped

9 August 1945

Location of second drop

Nagasaki

Death count from Hiroshima

70,000

Death count from Nagasaki

40.000

Long Telegram

22nd February 1946 by George Kennan

Long Telegram detailed

Fears about soviet ambitions

Iron Curtain Speech

6th March 1946

Truman Doctrine

12th March 1947 - Containment policy, preventing spread of Communism

Percentages Agreement

Greece was to be in the Western sphere of influence.

Reasons for Marshall Plan

-Prevent spread of Communism (poor people like communism)
-It aimed to create a market for Amecisn goods
-Unity in Europe

Amount of money in Marshall plan

$17 billion by 1953

Comecon created

January 1949

Mini berlin blockade begins

April 1948

London Conference meets again

April 1948 discussing new currency

Berlin blockade begins

24th June 1948

Counter Blockade

24th June 1948

American planes for Berlin Airlift

C-47

Berlin Airlift begins

26th June 1948

A plane arrived in Berlin every....

3 minutes

Easter Parade

15th April 1949 - 12000 tonnes of coal delivered

Berlin blockade lifted

13th May 1949

West Germany unifies

23rd May 1949

NATO begins

April 1949