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COLD WAR 1 - Coggle Diagram
COLD WAR 1
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World War II
Grand Alliance: Soviet Union, US and Great Britian
tensions beginning: second front, ideologies and USSR demands
wartime meetings: Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam
Soviet responses
Molotov plan 1947, Soviet version of the Marshall plan but ultimately failed as they were more concerned with extracting reparations from Germany and former allies
Comecon 1949, an extension of the Molotov plan to coordinate the economic policies of Eastern Europe in line with Soviet economic policies
The Warsaw Pact 1955, Soviet version of NATO
Early cold war crises
Berlin blockade and airlift
- USSR did not want a reunification of Germany, felt threatened when the Western powers joined their zones
- Stalin blockaded West Berlin as an attempt to force the Western powers to give their zones up
- Western powers vowed to not give in, airlifting supplies for a little under a year until Stalin lifted the blockade
China becoming communist
- Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong established the People's republic of China after a decades long civil war
- embarrassment to the US as they had supported the opposing side with lots of military aid and financial support, critics wondering where US policy had gone wrong to allow this to happen
- Soviet Union welcomed this conversion, establishing the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance and helped them to industrialise
Korean War
- At the end of WWII, Korea was divided as the South surrendered to US forces and the North surrendered to Soviet forces
- all attempts to reunite failed, made two different countries in 1948
- North Korean troops invaded the South and captured the capital in three days
- US passed a UN motion to help the South repel the North Koreans, successful, they were pushed back, but Truman wished to unite so invaded the North
- China felt threatened as they shared a border with North Korea, invaded after sending a warning that was ignored by Truman
- UN was pushed back, peace talks occured and dragged on for two years when an armstice was signed and Korea remained divided
Truman doctrine
inspired by the 1946 Turkish crisis as the US was threatened by USSR imposing themselves on countries within the Mediterranean. US provided naval aid to Turkey, Soviet pressure halted
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