the korean war ………in context. the significance of an event is not only determined by what...
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The significance of an event is not only determined by what actually happens……
……but also by its PLACE in a SEQUENCE of events
End of Second World War
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Yalta - February 1945
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Potsdam - July 1945
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Atomic bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 1945
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Ideological gap
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Spread of Communism
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Stalin’s satellite states
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Iron curtain speech - 1946
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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Stalin’s reply
Churchill is a warmonger
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Truman doctrine - 1947 Key word =
containment the policy of the
United States “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
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Marshall Aid - 1947 Marshall Aid took the
form of fuel, raw materials, goods, loans and food, machinery and advisers.
It jump-started rapid European economic growth, and stopped the spread of Communism.
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Cominform - 1947 Communist Information Bureau to coordinate actions between
Communist parties under Soviet
direction.
Tito and Yugoslavia - 1948
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Czechoslovakia - 1948 Communism
imposed on an unwilling nation
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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A symbolic conflict
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Plans for NATO announced
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NATO - 1949 An armed attack against
one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all.
if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.
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Comecon - 1949 an economic organization of
communist states
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Russian atomic bomb - 1949
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Communism spreads to China
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Spotlight Korea - 1950
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Stage 1 - North Korea invades South Korea
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Stage 2 - UN forces under General MacArthur counter attack
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Stage 3 - UN forces advance into North Korea towards China
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Stage 4 - Chinese forces invade South Korea
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Stage 5 - stalemate (it takes three years to agree an armistice)
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