Origins of the Cold War – Abroad

 

End of WWII

*   Soviet and US Goals

*   Yalta Conference, 1945

*   FDR dies

*   Potsdam Conference, 1945

*   Division of German

*   Four Occupation Zones

*   United Nations

 

Containment

*   George Kennan

*   Mister X

*   Domino Theory

*   Truman Doctrine

*   Greece and Turkey

*   Marshall Plan

*   Berlin Blockade, 1949

*   USSR detonates A-Bomb, 1949

*   NATO

Asia

*   Occupation of Japan

*   Douglas MacArthur

*   SCAP

*   Chinese Revolution

*   Nationalist (Chiang Kai-shek) and Communist (Mao Tse-tung

*   People’s Republic of China

*   NSC-68

*   Korean War

*   Dr. Syngman Rhee

*   Dean Acheson