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COLD WAR
  • 1945 delegates from 45 countries met form the
    United Nations
  • The five great powers United States, Soviet
    Union, Great Britain, France, and China were
    permanent members of the Security Council with
    the right to veto
  • The UN was intended to promote international
    cooperation
  • In 1945 Russia controlled much of Eastern Europe
  • Stalins aim was to protect Russias western
    border with communist allies Poland, Hungary,
    Rumania, Bulgaria

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  • 1946 at Fulton Missouri, Winston Churchill made
    his iron curtain speech
  • The British, Americans, French and Soviets each
    controlled a part of Berlin
  • Berlin was an area controlled by the Soviet
    Union, but roads and railroads were allowed to
    link to the western sectors
  • In 1947 the western sectors all merged for
    economic reasons

3
  • 1947 Truman gets 400m to aid Turkey and Greece
    to support free people
  • 1947 George Marshall proposed an economic packet
    to help war-torn Europe
  • The soviets refused to participate
  • 1948 a communist-backed coup in Czechoslovakia
    persuaded the Americans that they had to stop the
    spread of communism
  • The European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)
    provided 13b in aid

4
  • 1948 The soviets cut off access to Berlin. The
    Allies organized the Berlin Airlift
  • 1948 Britain, France and the Benelux countries
    signed the Brussels Pact
  • 1948 America establishes a peace time draft
  • May 1949 the soviets lifted the blockade
  • The western powers created West Germany the
    soviets created East Germany
  • 1949 twelve countries (Brussels Pact 5) signed
    the North Atlantic Pact gradually other
    countries were added this became NATO

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  • Eisenhower continued the Truman Doctrine
  • 1953 Stalin died
  • Khrushchev became the leader and promised
    peaceful coexistence
  • West Germany became part of NATO in 1955
  • 1955 the soviets established the Warsaw Pact
  • 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the west accept the
    neutralization of West Berlin or they would sign
    their rights to East Berlin to East Germany
  • The western powers did nothing and the deadline
    passed

6
  • August 1961 Khrushchev closed the east/west
    Berlin border
  • Began construction of the Berlin Wall
  • 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco Castro moves closer to
    Moscow

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  • 1963 American-Soviet Nuclear Test ban
  • 1967 The Outer Space Treaty
  • 1971 SALT I froze the number of ICBMs
  • 1979 SALT II limits on long range missiles,
    bombers, nuclear warheads

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  • 1979 Russia invades Afghanistan new cold war
  • 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall
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