Lecture 31 Power Point

Cold War 1945-1968: 

Cold War 1945-1968 February, 1945 “Big Three” -- Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt meet at Yalta July, 1945 -- Truman, Stalin, and Attlee meet at Potsdam 6 August, 1945 U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima Harsh Winter 1946-1947 threatens mass starvation in Europe 1947 U.S. Marshall Plan aids European Economy April-May 1948 Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakian Government 1949 Soviet Concil for Mutual Economic Assistance 1949 Soviet Union Tests first atomic bomb 1950- ’53 Korean War 1953 Soviet Union and United States Test Hydrogen Bomb 1956 Hungarian Uprising against Soviet Union 1957 Formation of the European Economic Community 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1968 Prague Spring Uprising

1947-1948: The Escalation of the Cold War: 

1947-1948: The Escalation of the Cold War Economic Hardship and the Communist Threat Restoring the Economy: the Marshall Plan Czechoslovakian Crisis Berlin Airlift Changing the Imperial World: India and Israel Forming NATO

End of Stalin’s Regime: 

End of Stalin’s Regime New Purges Stalin’s Death, March 5, 1953 Nikita Khrushchev’s Secret Sppech

1956 Rebellions in Poland and Hungary: 

1956 Rebellions in Poland and Hungary Poland Questions Soviet Leadership Hungary’s “Golden October” Hungarian Goals Soviet Response Cracks in Soviet Bloc?

1968 Prague Spring: 

1968 Prague Spring Khrushchev’s Ouster “Socialism with a human face” Passive Resistance Brezhnev Doctrine