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GCSE REVISION: ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR - Coggle Diagram
GCSE REVISION: ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
BACKGROUND
USA/USSR
difference in ideologies
captilalism and communism
satellite states
1945
Yalta conference feb. 1945
FDR, Stalin and Churchill
Stalin wanted Poland
GMY divided ito 4
set up UN
potsdam conference
July-August 1945
Clement Atlee
FDR dies 12th april 1945
Truman takes over
GMs sent back to eastern europe
argument over poland again
atomic bombs
hiroshima and nagasaki
6th/9th august
shows US advancement
1949-NATO
begining of arms race
SOVIET EXPANSIONS
1948 marshall tito allowed to rule independently
satellite states
cominform
soviet ideas
1947 onwards rigged elections
comecon economy
1946-1947
greek and turkish civil war
Truman brings shift to containment
pays for British support
1946
iron curtain speech
TRUMAN 1945-52
Marshall plan and aid
George marshall sent to europe
plan: send $17bill to europe (originally $11.5 bill)
food financial aid and resources
truman doctrine 1947
containing communism
BERLIN AIRLIFT 1948
Stalin blocks entry to west via transport
trizonia formed between GB, USA and FR
GB and USA drop supplies into trizonia
lasts until may 1948
10 months in total
1949
atomic bombs lead to the begining of the arms race
Mao and China
domino theory
1955 warsaw pact
khrushchev destalinisation