The Cold WarBY MARC AND REECE

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Cold War TYP Land Winston Churchill NATO GDR GFR Warsaw

The cold war

The cold war was a war between Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism It was a war with no actual fighting, just competiveness and threats (Grrr)

Tehran

Before the cold War there were conferences held Tehran, In Iran, 1943 Strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston

Churchill.

Yalta

Yalta, Black Sea, February 1945 The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations

of war-torn Europe. Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan. Stalin agreed to collaborate with the establishment of the United Nations

Organisation. Churchill got Stalin to agree that France should have a zone of occupation in the

defeated Germany

Potsdam august 1945

Location: Potsdam, Germany

Players: US President Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Clement

Attlee (who became UK Prime Minister on 26 July), Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Outcome: The terms of Japan's surrender were agreed; the Council

of Foreign Ministers tasked with drawing up peace treaties; Poland's

frontiers discussed; Germany's disarmament and reparations

confirmed; and the decision made to hold war trials.

Land

Poland, Czechlovakia and Yugoslavia wanted pieces of land in West Germany At Yalta They agreed to split Berlin into 4 zones. France, America, Brittan, Russia There was also a annexed Zone which Poland and others occupied

Churchill(iron speech) Nine months after Sir Winston Churchill failed to be re-elected as Britain's Prime

Minister. On March 5, 1946, at the request of Westminster College in the small Missouri town of Fulton, US, Churchill gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000. In addition to accepting an honorary degree from the college, Churchill made one of his most famous post-war speeches. This was the reason why he was in the US

In this speech, Churchill gave the very descriptive phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent”

NATO A meeting in June 1950

It helped the allies realise that the communist countries were rising in

the East

They created military plans in 1951

It was a long term defence plan

GFR It was formed in 1949

It was a much more liberal society than the GDR.

Many people flooded into Western Germany as it was socially and

economically more stable than East Germany

West Germany won 1954 FIFA world Cup

They only united the Germany in football 2 years after the Berlin wall

came down (1991)

GDR Established 1949

Capital was East berlin

Had a major Russian influence

It was cut off from the rest of the world, as a result of its ties with

Russia and Stalin in particular

Many people living in East Germany left.

1955 signed Warsaw pact

Warsaw Pact treaty 1955

The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact)

was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955

between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.

The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and

Western European nations in 1949.

The Warsaw Pact officially disbanded in March and July of 1991

following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.