Yalta (Crimean) Conference
“progressive democracies”
Finland
unconditional surrender
demilitarization and denazification
dismemberment
reparations
Yalta Protocols
secret annex to the Yalta Protocols
Polish Provisional Government of National Unity
Sakhalin and Kurile Islands
Declaration of Liberated Europe
Atlantic Charter
sovietization
dictatorship of the proletariat
Romania
Harry S. Truman
San Francisco Conference
Potsdam Conference
Clement Attlee
Tito - Trieste Crisis
Manhattan Project
Igor Gouzenko
GRU
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Peace Treaties: Italy, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary and Romania
George Kennan
long telegram
'Mr. X'
"The Sources of Soviet Conduct"
Foreign
Affairs, (July 1947)
containment doctrine
Walter Lippmann
"Cold War"
Winston Churchill Fulton Missouri Speech
iron curtain
Iran Crisis 1946
Turkish Crisis 1946
Truman Doctrine
George Marshall
European Recovery Program (ERP) – "Marshall Plan" |
LINKS:
YALTA
CONFERENCE PROTOCOLS
Yalta
Conference Details
United States Department of State
Foreign
relations of the United States.
Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1945
US Military Strength
1945: 12 million troops
1946: 6.1 million troops
1948: 1.6 million troops
Defense Budget
1945: $80 billion (40% of GNP)
1946: $45 billion
1947: $11 billion (5% of GNP)
Soviet Military Strength
1945: 11.3 million troops
1947: 2.8
million
Soviet defence budget falls from 137.8 billion rubles in 1944 to 55.2 billion by 1947 |
COMMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP IN EUROPE
LINK "The Long Telegram" February 22, 1946
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The Charge in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State
SECRET
Moscow, February 22, 1946--9 p.m.
[Received February 22--3: 52 p.m.] |
