Cold War (Beginnings)

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  • Cold War Key Events (Early Stages)
    • Wartime conferences
      • Yalta
        • Agreed that Germany and Berlin would be split into 4 zones of occupation
      • Tehran
        • Agreed that SU, USA and Britain would invade Japan once they had defeated Germany
      • Potsdam
        • They negotiated terms for the end of WW2
      • Caused High Tension due to disagreement over Berlin
    • Greek Civil War + Iron curtain speech
      • Iron Curtain Speech
        • Speech made by Winston Churchill declaring the separation between capitalism and communism in the east and west.
      • Greek Civil War
        • Britain alerted USA they could no longer afford to support the Greek civil war. So USA stepped in, for fear that communism would spread
    • Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
      • Truman Doctrine
        • Military support for countries fighting communism
      • Marshall Plan
        • Monetary  Aid for the countries around Russia fighting communism
      • Caused the soviet response of Cominform and Comecon. Whilst also helping the Greeks win the civil war
    • Berlin Blockade
      • SU blocked all road, rail and canal access into Berlin, to prevent US forces from entering Berlin
        • They believed Berlins hound be theirs because it was in their zone of occupation
        • Berlin Airlift
          • Every 3 mins a plane would arrive into Berlin and in total 369,347 tonnes of supplied were brought into Berlin
            • Caused the removing of the blockade, but increased tension and led to the more permanent, Berlin Wall.
              • Also caused the division of Germany into East and Wes, as well as the formation of NATO.

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