Cold war 1

• Terhan conference 1943
•  Yalta conference 1945 (feb)
• • Potsdam conference 1945 (Jul)
• • Long (USA) and Novikov (USSR) telegrams of 1946
• Winston Churchill made a statement on the iron curtain during a speech in 1946
• Truman doctrine in 1947
• Marshall plan of 1947
• By 1953 the USA provided $17 billion to rebuild economics and raise the standard of living
• Cominform 1947 (political)
• Comecon 1949 (financial)
• In 1947 the USA and British zones of Berlin merged into one economic unit known as Bizonia.
• In June 1948 Western powers announced plans to make West Germany
• The currency in West Germany was the deutschmark 1948
• Berlin airlift began on June 28 1948
• By May 1949 Stalin lifted the blockade
• NATO began 1949
• Warsaw pact of 1955
• By 1949 the Soviets had developed and tested their own atomic bomb
• By 1953 both superpowers possessed hydrogen bombs
• Sputnik launched by USSR 1957
• Hungarian uprising 1956
• On November 4 1956 200000 troops and 6000 tanks returned to Hungary
• Nagy was arrested and shot in 1958
• 1. Terhan
  2. Yalta
  3. Potsdam
• In the terhan conference it was agreed

  • a second front would be opened in France,
  • the USSR world join the Japan war after Germany's defeat
  • Eastern Poland given to USSR
• In the Yalta conference:

  • Germany and Berlin would be divided into four zones of occupation with the USSR, Britain, France and the USA each controlling a zone.
  • A countries freed from Nazis would be guaranteed the right to hold free elections
  • Again Stalin agreed to join the war in Japan
  • The United Nations would be set up
• In the Potsdam conference:

  Very little was decided but there was tension due to :

  • Atomic bomb being tested by usa
  • New presidents for Britain and USA
  • There was little evidence Stalin was up for allowing free elections previously agreed at yalta