the cold wa

• The Yalta Conference took place in february 1945
• The Terhan Conference took place in december 1943
• The Potsdam conference took place in august 1945
• the leaders at the Tehran conference

  Stalin , Roosevelt , Churchill
• The Tehran conference 


  Roosevelt wanted help from Stalin to defeat Japan
• The Tehran Conference 


  Britain and USA to invade Europe in May 1944
• The Yalta Conference 


  Germany and Berlin to be split
• The Yalta Conference

  Stalin wanted Poland to act as a buffer zone
• The Yalta Conference


  to prosecute Nazi war criminals
• The Yalta Conference


  to allow countries liberated from German occupation to have free elections
• The Yalta Conference

  to join the united nations in order to maintain peace
• The Potsdam conference


  Germany and Berlin are divided
• The Potsdam conference


  Germany was demilitarized
• The Potsdam conference


  Democracy to be re-established in Germany
• The Truman Doctrine 


  March 12th 1947
• The Truman Doctrine 


  A plan to provide economic and military to support an country opposing communism
• The Truman Doctrine 


  The USA became more involved in foreign affairs
• Geneva summit 


  may 1959
• Geneva Summit 


  No agreement
• Camp David Summit 


  September 1959
• Camp David summit 


  agreed to meet next year
• Paris summit 


  may 1960
• Paris Summit 


  American spy plane was shot down days before
• Vienna summit 


  june 1961
• Vienna summit 


  new president - John F Kennedy
• Vienna Summit 


  Kennedy increased spending on military by $2 billion
• The 12th August 1961 


  The building of the Berlin Wall
• One day in August 1961

  40,000 east Germans crossed to the west
• The Berlin Wall was completed in

  October 1961
• The Berlin Wall was 165km long
• The Berlin Wall was guarded by Soviet tanks
• November 1958 


  Khrushchev's Berlin Ultimatum
• By 1958 around 3 million east Germans had crossed to the west
• Summit Meetings order 


  Greg Can Play Volleyball
• In 1959


  Batista (leader of Cuba) is overthrown by Castro
• Castro was drawn to communism
• In 1960 Eisenhower banned all trade with Cuba
• The Bay of Pigs

  April 1961
• Bay of Pigs 


  1,400 Cuban exiles invaded Bay of Pigs in Cuba
• Bay of Pigs failure 


  exiles had little experience