The Cold War

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Cold War Timeline

End of WWII

• Nuclear Age

• U.S. is a superpower

• Soviet Union became a superpower in 1949

Policy of Containment

President Harry S. Truman

April 12, 1945

United Nations

Potsdam Conference

July 1945Final wartime conference

Stalin would break his promise

Mounting Tensions

Satellite Nations: Communist governments put in place and dominated

by the Soviet Union“Iron curtain” speech:

By Winston Churchill Division of Europe Stalin called it a “call to war”

Truman Doctrine

• 1947

• $400 million

• Help aid Turkey and Greece

• Resist against “outside pressure”

Marshall Plan

• Sec of State George Marshall

• June 1947

• Provide aid to all European nations in need

• “Not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”

Struggle over Germany

Berlin Airlift

One of the first major crises of the Cold WarJune 1948 – May 1949US and British flew supplies into W. BerlinLasted 327 days277,000 flights2.3 million tons of supplies

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Est. 1949