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The document provides a history of the Cold War, discussing its origins after World War 2 and key events that increased tensions between the US and USSR such as the Potsdam Conference, Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the invasion of Poland, the fight over influence in Poland, and the Korean War. It also briefly mentions the Second Cold War and concludes with the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 marking the end of the Cold War.
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• Worldwide
Conflict
• Western Europe
on the Front Line
• Regional Conflicts
• International
and Regional
Convergence
Conflict and Convergence: 1945–19506
1943
Sartre’s Being and
Nothingness is
published
The “big three”
meet at Tehran
conference
1945
Yalta conference
is held
VE Day ends the
war in Europe
Potsdam
conference is held
VJ Day ends the
war in the Pacific
Ho Chi Minh
“decolonizes”
Vietnam
Korea is divided
into occupation
zones
The United
Nations is
founded
1946
The first
Indochina war
begins
Bretton Woods
system goes into
effect
Kennan writes the
“Long Telegram”
Churchill makes
“Iron Curtain”
speech
1947
India is
decolonized
India and
Pakistan are
created
UN Partition Plan
for Palestine is
approved
Truman Doctrine,
Marshall Plan,
and National
Security Act go
into effect in
United States
The “Red Scare”
takes hold in the
United States
1941
United States and
USSR join the
Allies
C H A P T E R T I M E L I N EC H A P T E R T I M E L I N E
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Photos from left to right: Vietminh troops
march into Hanoi, 1954; UN poster; The new
“big 3”; Family fleeing from square block of
Jewish occupied buildings in the Jewish
district of Jerusalem, February, 1948.
1948
Congress of
Europe meets
Gandhi is
assassinated
USSR blockades
Berlin, and United
States flies airlift
around it
The OAS is
established
State of Israel
is created and
recognized
The first Arab-
Israeli War begins
1949
Mao wins civil
war in China and
establishes PRC
Chinese
nationalists flee
to Taiwan
The German
Federal Republic
is created
NATO is
established
1950
Sino-Soviet Treaty
is signed
U.S. government
issues NSC-68
1955
Moscow creates
the Warsaw Pact
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Worldwide Conflict
The defining structural characteristic of the
latter half of the twentieth century was the
conflict between the two “superpowers” that
emerged at the end of World War II. After
thirty years of war and its consequences in
Europe, Germany’s and Italy’s military ca-
pacities were almost completely destroyed
and Great Britain’s and France’s had been
greatly diminished. What was left of Japan’s
military was being dismantled by the United
States during the Occupation, and China
was engaged in an intermittent civil war
from April 1927 through May 1950. By
1945, only the United States and USSR were
capable of fielding effective military ma-
chines, and the United States was clearly
leading in terms of military technology, proven by its use of the atomic bombs in Japan. The mil-
itary alliance these two countries forged to defeat fascism in World War ...
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