Cambridge A-Levels
HISTORY
(A2) notes
P3: THE ORIGINS &
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
COLD WAR
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Timeline of the Cold War (1939-1955) 01
2
The Cold War: Context 02-17
Introduction
Chapter 1: The seeds of conflict (1941-1945)
Chapter 2: The Cold War in europe (1945-1950)
3
The Cold War: Schools of Thought 18
Traditional/Orthodox
Revisionist
Post-Revisionist
Post-post revisionist
, A2 History
Paper 3- The Cold War: Timeline
Colour codes:
• Significant events
• Acts
• Conferences
• People
• Acts of War
• Bodies
Year Month Event
Aug Nazi-Soviet Pact
1939 Sept German Invasion of Poland
British declaration of war on Germany
Churchill becomes prime minister of the UK
1940 Stalin takes over Baltic states
The fall of France
Germany invades Soviet Union
Lend & Lease Act
1941
Dec Japanese bombs US naval base at Pearl Harbour
US declaration of War on Japan
1942 Battle of Midway
Sept Italians surrender with Mussolini deposed
1943 Cairo Conference
Nov Teheran Conference
June D-Day: Allied invasion of France
1944
Oct Churchill & Stalin’s percentage agreement
Feb Yalta Conference
May German surrender
Aug US drops the atomic bomb on Japan
1945 Truman becomes president
Atlee replaces Churchill as PM
July-Aug Potsdam Conference
Aug Japanese surrender
Feb Kennan’s Long Telegram
1946
March Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
March Truman Doctrine
1947 June Marshall plan
Oct COMINFORM- Coordinating communist parties in Europe
Czechoslovakia coup
1948
June Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade ends
May
-Official establishment of E. and W. Germany
1949 Soviet announcing the creation of the atomic bomb
April NATO
COMECOM- Coordinating economies of communist countries
1955 May WARSAW Pact
Notes compiled by: Chew Wen Min 1
HISTORY
(A2) notes
P3: THE ORIGINS &
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
COLD WAR
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1
Timeline of the Cold War (1939-1955) 01
2
The Cold War: Context 02-17
Introduction
Chapter 1: The seeds of conflict (1941-1945)
Chapter 2: The Cold War in europe (1945-1950)
3
The Cold War: Schools of Thought 18
Traditional/Orthodox
Revisionist
Post-Revisionist
Post-post revisionist
, A2 History
Paper 3- The Cold War: Timeline
Colour codes:
• Significant events
• Acts
• Conferences
• People
• Acts of War
• Bodies
Year Month Event
Aug Nazi-Soviet Pact
1939 Sept German Invasion of Poland
British declaration of war on Germany
Churchill becomes prime minister of the UK
1940 Stalin takes over Baltic states
The fall of France
Germany invades Soviet Union
Lend & Lease Act
1941
Dec Japanese bombs US naval base at Pearl Harbour
US declaration of War on Japan
1942 Battle of Midway
Sept Italians surrender with Mussolini deposed
1943 Cairo Conference
Nov Teheran Conference
June D-Day: Allied invasion of France
1944
Oct Churchill & Stalin’s percentage agreement
Feb Yalta Conference
May German surrender
Aug US drops the atomic bomb on Japan
1945 Truman becomes president
Atlee replaces Churchill as PM
July-Aug Potsdam Conference
Aug Japanese surrender
Feb Kennan’s Long Telegram
1946
March Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
March Truman Doctrine
1947 June Marshall plan
Oct COMINFORM- Coordinating communist parties in Europe
Czechoslovakia coup
1948
June Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade ends
May
-Official establishment of E. and W. Germany
1949 Soviet announcing the creation of the atomic bomb
April NATO
COMECOM- Coordinating economies of communist countries
1955 May WARSAW Pact
Notes compiled by: Chew Wen Min 1
