Cold War: 1947-1991 - created from Mind Map

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Conferences

Germany

Poland

Eastern Europe

United Nations

People involved

Red Scare

Formation of Nato

Bay of Pigs

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Détente

Yalta

Potsdam

Tehran

Soviet Agreement to Join the War in the Pacific

Signing of the ‘Declaration for Liberated Europe’ and pledging support for democratic governments with free elections across all of Europe.

Agreement to have immediate political control of Germany

Agreement on a new international organization

Agreement on the need for a weak postwar Germany

What to do with Germany after the War, Unconditional Surrender was needed.

Germany needed to be disarmed, demilitarized, de-Nazified, and divided

No agreement on how to fulfill prior agreements, This would later be done individually by respective nations in their respective zones.

Stalin wanted to know what to do with Poland after the War and what borders should be kept.

Borders of Poland to be drawn, post-war government, new border to be drawn at the Curzon Line.

Truman was not happy with prior agreements, wanted polish government to be re-organized.

The Soviet Union wanted to keep their territory in Eastern Europe that they had seized.

Governments had to create in Eastern Europe to decide their fate.

Us was unhappy with the “Percentages Agreement’, with the influence in future decisions based off of percentages, Stalin would then get too much influence over Eastern European States.

The US in particular wanted to create a new international body.

The USSR would join the UN, Five permanent members, Soviets wanted all individual Soviet Republics get an individual vote

UN became a reality, Created by the Treaty of San Francisco, USSR was the only communist power in the Big 5, who where the permanent members of the UN Security council.

Kennedy

Kruschev

Churchill

Stalin

Castro

Truman

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The iron curtain speech

Beginning of the cold war

The Truman Doctrine

A FOREIGN POLICY DESIGNED TO STOP SOVIET COMMUNISM/

Policy of containment

hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S.

Federal employees were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government

Communist government of the German Democratic Republic built a barbed wire and concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin

The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.

leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.