Superpower relationships dates Flashcards
Tehran conference
November- December 1943
Yalta conference
February 1945
Potsdam conference
July- August 1945
USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
6th August 1945
Kennan Long Telegram
22nd February 1946
New strategy for US relations with the Soviet Union, feeding into Truman’s view.
Saying Soviet Union was automatically hostile to the US and were acting against wartime agreements.
Communism needed to be contained
Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
5th March 1946
USA and UK should ally against ussr
Truman’s classic quote
“Stop babying the Soviet’s”
May 1946
USA halts reparations to the USSR
USA and UK merge there German zones into Bizonia
July 1946
Novilov’s Telegram
27th September 1946
Basically equivalent to Kennan Long Telegram
USA wanted to dominate the world needed to build military
Truman Doctrine of Containment
12th March 1947
Marshall Plan
7th June 1947
Committed $13 billion and supposedly offered to everyone. Could be seen as USA method of gaining financial gain - similarly to how much their economy had actually grown during the war.
COMINFORM
September 1947
Berlin Blockade
June 1948- May 1949
COMECON
January 1949 provided financial aid to Eastern Europe
