Coldwar 411

Cold War Timeline

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  • Yalta

    Yalta
    To declare respect for democracy in Europe. Yalta had plans to divide Germany into sepereate zones.

  • Truman Doctine

    Truman Doctine
    Truman wanted the US to have political, economic, and military assistance to all democratic nations.

  • Roosevelt dies

    Roosevelt dies
    Roosevelt dies from a hemerige and dies. Vice president Truman takes over with littlwe to no communication with Roosevelt before his death.

  • First Atomic Bomb

    First Atomic Bomb
    America bombed japanese city Hiroshima and wiped out 90% of the city. killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

  • Iron certain speech

    Iron certain speech
    Churchill traveled by train with President Harry Truman to make a speech. he surprised US and Britian hen he said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.

  • Communist takes over Czechoslovakia

    Communist takes over Czechoslovakia
    President Eduard Benes allows cmmunist-dominated government to be organized. te communists organized strikes and protests, and began clamping down on opposition parties.

  • NATO

    NATO
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen ties between member states.

  • Berlin Blockade ends

    Berlin Blockade ends
    the last plane–an American C-54–landed in Berlin and unloaded over two tons of coal. It took several months to stock food and medicine.

  • china becomes communist

    china becomes communist
    Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. Turned into a civil war between Communist and nationalist Party.