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Cold War● Lenin Started the USSR around the year 1917
● Stalin replaced Lenin when he died
● Stalin changed the country into an industrial-based economy
● Stalin led through fear
● During WW2 the US, UK, and USSR were allies
● Potsdam Conference 1945 - The US informed the USSR that they had created an atomic bomb
● In 1945, The US dropped a bomb on Japan, which ended WW2
● Stalin made Eastern Europe communist
● Churchill introduced the idea of an “Iron Curtain”
● The relationship between the US, UK, and USSR broke
● British got involved in the Greek Civil War (1946 - 49)
● The UN forced the USSR out of Iran
● NATO was created in 1949
● The Truman Doctrine (1947) announced the idea of containing communism
● Many people believe that the Truman Doctrine represents the beginning of the cold war
● The Marshall Plan (1948) - America sent $12 Billion Dollars to Western Europe in order for them
to recover. (Loans and Aid)
● Stalin tried to counter America by creating Comecon (Stalin’s plan for economic recovery)
● Cominform allowed Stalin to have more political power
● Berlin was divided into UK, France, the US, and USSR
● Berlin Blockade (1948) which led to the Berlin Airlift (1948 - 49)
● The soviet union had made an atomic bomb (1949)
● China became communist around the year 1950
● The UN created a force to fight against North Korea
● In 1952, Eisenhower was elected president
● 1953 - Stalin dies and Nikita Khruschev replaces him
● The idea of de-Stalinization was introduced around 1956
● Khruschev suppressed most uprisings but did allow some reforms
● Espionage - U2 spy planes took pictures from the sky
● The soviet union was ahead in the space race at this time
● The USSR launched Sputnik in 1957 and sent a man into space in 1961
● 1952 - H-bomb first test increased tensions between the two superpowers
● West Germany becomes a part of NATO (1955)
● Warsaw Pact (1955)
● Kennedy was elected president (1960 election)
● August 13th, 1961 - Berlin Wall created
● Checkpoint Charlie - October 1961
● Cuban revolution - 1959
● Bay of pigs (1961) - America gets defeated
● A U2 spy plane found that there were missiles in Cuba
● America blockaded Cuba (1962)
● October 1962 - Cuban missile crisis was the closest that the superpowers ever came MAD
(Mutually Assured Destruction)
● The superpowers worked together to reduce tension/threat after this point but there was still some
issues
● Brexhnev becomes leader in 1964
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