Cold War Timeline

Question 1

1939

Answer 1

Start if ww2

Nazi-Soviet pact

Question 2

1943

Answer 2

Teheran conference

Question 3

1945

Answer 3

Comminform- 90mil communist

Feb- Yalta conférence
July- Potsdam conference- post war Germany

USA= 12 mil men worldwide

Question 4

1946

Answer 4

March= Churchill iron curtain

USA = 3 mil men

Question 5

1947

Answer 5

12 March - Truman asks for support

$400 mil to Greece and turkey
August - advisers to Athens

USA = 1,5 mil men

National liberation front

Question 6

1948

Answer 6

Marchal plan ( 4 years, $400 mil)

• country produces 20% more
• second industrial revolution

June- Vandenberg résolution

20 june - Deutsche Mark
23 june - east currency

First Berlin crisis

Question 7

1949

Answer 7

April- NATO

• general Eisenhower
• $1 billion to rearm
• 3 million troops

End of first Berlin crisis

Question 8

1952

Answer 8

Greece and turkey join NATO

Question 9

1953

Answer 9

March- Stalin dies

• Nikita Khrushchev
• “de-stalinisation”
• “ co-existence”
• Russian first hydrogen bomb

Start of second Berlin crisis

Question 10

1955

Answer 10

Wear Germany allowed into nato

End of 2nd Berlin crisis

Warsaw Pact

Question 11

1958

Answer 11

3rd Berlin crisis

Khrushchev demands

Question 12

1961

Answer 12

Nuclear arms race

4th Berlin crisis
- Berlin Wall

Aug- 4000 people cross- Brian drain