cold war

• 1944 - Moscow conference - percentage agreement
• 1945 - february - Yalta conference - stalin roosevelt churchill declaration of liberated eastern europe
• 1979 - June - Vienna Summit - Salt 2 - both recognised the need for an agreement - agreed to reduce ICBMs and SLBMs - publicly recognised their roles and responsibilities in the arms race and the danger of it - both wanted to sustain detente.
• 1945 San francisco conference - ussr,un,world bank
• 1945 - Truman becomes president -
• 1945 july Potsdam - truman stalin attlee - a bomb - after the war
• Liberation  of eastern europe
• 1945 - Poland - lublin gov - national unity party - 1947
• 1945 - Romania - percentage 90% ussr - red army
• 1945 - bulgaria - rigged election - agrarian party and petkov - communist party
• 1945 - hungary - easy to take over - some fled to yugoslavia
• 1945 - yugoslavia - tito refused - marshall plan aid
• 1946 - February - Long telegram - george kennan - influential - 8000 words
• 1946 - March - Iron curtain speech - threatening - churchill and truman - missouri
• 1949 Molotov speech - response - stalin threatened - security and buffer zone
• 1946 - Greek civil war - nationalists vs communists - br aid then
• 1947 - march - Truman doctrine - pledge to stop communism
• 1948 - marshall plan - 13bn 4 years - 15-25% gdp growth - info on countries needed for aid
• 1947 - Cominform - politics
• Comecon - economy
• Bizonia 1947 - joining of us and br german sections to gain economic strength
• 1947 - november and december - London conference - us no reparations to ussr
• 1948 - february to june - new currency - deutschmark increase west germany's economic stability
• 1948 -  june - Berlin blockade - new currency - blocked off west germany - 2.3 million tonnes airlift - br foreign secretary  ernest bevin and us general clay
• 1949 - april - Nato - increased security after berlin blockade
• Reconstruction of post war japan
• Macarthur and ikeda - conscription 52,000 - 110,000 - not needed
• 1950 - Space race - missile gap 1957 - cia gaither report - us → 1960 20 icbms - 1962 - 295 icbms and ussr → 1960 30 icbms - 1962 - 75 icbms
• 1950- october - sputnik - ussr - 1 satellite in space
• 1950  - november - sputnik - us - satellite with dog
• 1950  - kaputnik - us - failed
• 1951 - San francisco peace treaty - sovereignty of japan recognized
• 1951 - Bilateral security agreement - japan given us aid - us had veto military bases and control of japanese forces
• South vietnam - diem - corrupt took advantage of us support.
• In 1972, North Vietnam launched an offensive, causing 8,000 casualties to the south and 5 times as many to the north, proving effective.
• 1976 - mao died and deng xiaoping took over - prioritised china's economy over relations but china's economy would benefit us
• 1979 - 29 january and 4 february - deng was scheduled to visit the us
• Oap 34 a introduced - covert operations to increase pressure on north vietnam
• 1962 - sent 12000 advisors - in 1963 increased to 16000 advisors maxwell taylor and kennedy backed counterinsurgency tactic to stop guerilla action
• 1971 - china joined un