ORIGINS OF COLD WAR + BERLIN
Sept 1945 End of WW2
Feb 1945 Yalta Conference – divide Germany = zones of occupaCon
- Big 3 = Churchill, FDR, Stalin
Jul – Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference
- Big 3 = Clement Atlee, Harry Truman, Stalin
- Less agreement
1947 Marshal Plan established = help Europe rebuild itself
- Distributed = OEEC (OrganisaCon of European economic co-op)
Feb 1947 Communist rebels in Greece = US response = Truman Doctrine
1948 Russia = staged coup = Czechoslovakia = response = Truman doctrine
March 1948 Brussels Conference = US = commit to defend other states
June 1948 West Germany = adopt a new currency
- Russia = opposed = cut off all links to West Berlin
- US = supplied West Berlin with supplies = by air
1949 Comecon(Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) formed = response
to OEEC
April 1949 NATO created
1953 Stalin = dead -> Nikita Khrushchev = new USSR leader
9 May 1955 West Germany = join NATO
14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact signed = response = West Germany joining NATO
1960 West call for summit = U2 spy plane shot down = summit cancelled
13 Aug 1961 East German police = seal off WB = wire fences
17 Aug 1961 Begun to build Berlin Wall
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
1952 Fulgencio BaCsta = overthrow Cuban Gov = brutal dictatorship
- Dictator + anC – communist
1959 Overthrown by Fidel Castro + revoluConaries (peasants + workers)
1961 USA = cut off all diplomaCc relaCons with Cuba
Cuba declared a socialist republic
Apr 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion = US defeat = push Castro closer to Russia
22-27 Oct 1962 U2 spy plane = pics of USSR ICBM base in Cuba
- Kennedy = order naval blockade]
- Khrushchev = avoid nuclear war = soviet ships turn back
- AKA Cuban missile crisis
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Sept 1945 End of WW2
Feb 1945 Yalta Conference – divide Germany = zones of occupaCon
- Big 3 = Churchill, FDR, Stalin
Jul – Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference
- Big 3 = Clement Atlee, Harry Truman, Stalin
- Less agreement
1947 Marshal Plan established = help Europe rebuild itself
- Distributed = OEEC (OrganisaCon of European economic co-op)
Feb 1947 Communist rebels in Greece = US response = Truman Doctrine
1948 Russia = staged coup = Czechoslovakia = response = Truman doctrine
March 1948 Brussels Conference = US = commit to defend other states
June 1948 West Germany = adopt a new currency
- Russia = opposed = cut off all links to West Berlin
- US = supplied West Berlin with supplies = by air
1949 Comecon(Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) formed = response
to OEEC
April 1949 NATO created
1953 Stalin = dead -> Nikita Khrushchev = new USSR leader
9 May 1955 West Germany = join NATO
14 May 1955 Warsaw Pact signed = response = West Germany joining NATO
1960 West call for summit = U2 spy plane shot down = summit cancelled
13 Aug 1961 East German police = seal off WB = wire fences
17 Aug 1961 Begun to build Berlin Wall
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
1952 Fulgencio BaCsta = overthrow Cuban Gov = brutal dictatorship
- Dictator + anC – communist
1959 Overthrown by Fidel Castro + revoluConaries (peasants + workers)
1961 USA = cut off all diplomaCc relaCons with Cuba
Cuba declared a socialist republic
Apr 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion = US defeat = push Castro closer to Russia
22-27 Oct 1962 U2 spy plane = pics of USSR ICBM base in Cuba
- Kennedy = order naval blockade]
- Khrushchev = avoid nuclear war = soviet ships turn back
- AKA Cuban missile crisis
1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
