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Start of the cold war - Key dates
Flashcards do conjunto (9)
- 1Feb 4th - 11th 1945 Yalta conferenceMeeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war, topics in discussion were :-
Partitioning of Germany
Fate of Poland
The United states
German Reparations - 2May 8th 1945 V E DayVictory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian army
- 3July 17th - August 2nd 1945 Potsdam conferenceGermany, Berlin and Austria were all split into four
Korea divided into Soviet and American zones - 4August 6th - 1945 HiroshimaThe US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- 5August 8th - 1945 NagasakiUS dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki
- 6August 14th - 1945 V J DayJapanese surrender bringing WWII to an end
- 7March 5th - 1946 Churchills Iron Curtain SpeechChuchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech, containign the famous phrase "...an iron curtain has descended on Europe"
- 8March 12th - 1947 Truman doctrinePresident Truman promised to help any country facing a comminist takeover
- 9June 5th - 1947 Marshall PlanA plan to send aid to any European country. The plan was rejected by Stalin and any European Bloc country accepting aid was reprimanded severely.
Aid was only given to Western countries