Flashcards
Cold War
Flashcards do conjunto (24)
- 11941 Cold War related The WestAugust 1941
Atlantic Charter signed by GB and US - 21943 - Cold War Related The WestMay, 1943 British Froeign Secretary Antny Eden puts forward idea of 'Inter Alied Armistice Commission'
03 September: Armistice with Italy signed, GB + US reps present. USSR excluded from peace talks. - 31943 - Cold War related Direct contact / conflict28 Nov-1st Dec 1943
Teheran Conference attended by 'The Big Three' - 41944 Cold War related EastAugust 1944, Warsaw Uprising
Red Army do not aid Polish Home Army. Warsaw all but demolished by Nazis. - 51944 Cold War related EastSeptember 1944
East:
Romanian Armistice negotiations
Molotov secures sweeping political powers for USSR.
GB + US reps. silent - 6Cold War related 1944 WestOctober 1944
Greece is liberated
ELAS resisted until British troops in Athens.
Exiled Gov. reinstated -G. Papendreou cooperates.
ELAS: paramilitary wing of communist party KKE. - 71944 - Cold War related Direct contact / conflictOctober 1944
Percentages Agreement between USSR and GB
Settles postwar their postwar influence over East + Southern Europe - 81944 Cold War related EastOctober 1944
Josip Broz Tito leading the Yugoslav communists enters Belgrade. Coerced into a coalition gov. with exiled Yugoslav government by USSR - 91944 Cold War related WestDecember 1944
Italian Communist Party (PCI) become anti-fascist under Toglatti. (PCI leader and vice-President)
Greek gov. backed by GB occupying force demand dissarmement of guerilla armies (ELAS...) Athens demonstrations - intense fighting. - 101945 Cold War related East n' WestJanuary 1944
Liberation of Warsaw by the red Army
11th Ceasefire between ELAS and GB - 111945 Cold War related Direct contact / conflict4-8th February
Yalta Conference =
12th February #Crimea Declaration
Poland's future, postwar Germany, Agreement on principal of national self determination. - 121945 Cold War related EastSpring 1945
Red Army round up an deport up to 40,000 Polish Home Army guerillas (unit 12)
April 1945
Stalin "Everyone imposes his own system so far as his own army can reach" - 13Cold War related West / direct contact and EastApril 25th 1944
River Elbe Germany - US and Red Advance units meet.
April 27th 1944
W. Churchill speech after meeting Soviet + US troops emphasising "comradeship between Allies and the joint goal of defeating Germany
30th April 1944
Tito, Yugoslav commis liberate and occupy Trieste (It) port. - 141945 Cold War related Direct contact / conflict7th May 1945
Germans officially surrender. Fighting ceases next day.
5th June
Allies assume supreme power in Germany. Allied Control Council Established in Berlin - 151945 Cold War related East12th June 1945
Tito (Yugo) retreat from Trieste
placed under joint Anglo-American-Yugo military admin. - 161945 Cold War related EastJune 1945
Communist Party officially registered in Eastern parts of Germany (then others)
15th July
Formation of four-party anti-fascist bloc in East Germany - 171945 - 1946 Cold War related June-December (1946) Direct contact / conflictRapid demobilisation of US, GB forces and Red Army
- 181945 Cold War related - closer now direct contact / conflict17th July - 2nd August 1945
Potsdam Conference.
Tensions between Allies.
Churchill and Roosevelt replaced by
Attlee and Truman
Arguments of Poland and Soviet activity in Easter Europe. - 191945 Cold War related direct contact / conflict17th July - 2nd August
Agreement on four-power occupation of Germany (and Berlin):
de-Nazification; democratisation; demilitarisation and decartelisation.
Germany should remain 1 State with commn economic policies.
Reparations to be sent from western zones to USSR. - 201945 Cold War related WestJuly-August 1945
Social Democrats (SPD) become active in western zones of Germany - 211945 Cold War related Direct contact / conflict + East7th August 1945
France joins Control Council
August 1945
USSR launches nuclear weapons programme
3-10 September 1945
Land reforms begin in Soviet zone - 221945 Cold war related West21st October First POst-war elections held in Framce. Women vote for 1st time
PCF (commi fr)win 26%
MRP (Christian democrats) 24%
SFIO (socialist) 23% - 231945 Cold War related EastNovember 1945
Red Arm leaves Czechoslovakia
11th November
Elections in Yugo Tto and Commis overwhelming win
25th November 1945
Austrian elections, commi party just 5% - marginalised. - 241946 Cold War related (the beginning?) direct contact / conflictDecember - February 1946
Terrible winter in Europe
massive food shortages in western Germany and refugee crisis.
Informações
- Descrição
- Running up to and during the Cold War. European emphasis.
- Criado por
- alexandramunns
- Visualizações
- 100
- Tags
- Avaliação