HIST 3683 Lecture 4: Cold War Timeline
Document Summary
August 6th 1945: hiroshima/august 9th 1945 nagasaki. Feb 1946 keenan"s long telegram / july 1946 kennans mr. x article. November 1946: gop takes control of congress: 81, 82, 83 congress is a problem for truman, tries to undo the new deal. January 1947: poland"s free election results in communist history (counted less than 50% of votes: communist leaders take over in poland. Feb 1948: russian-backed communist takeover of czechoslovakia. April 1949: nato may 1955: warsaw pact: communist version os nato was the warsaw pact. May 1949: germany formally divided into east and west. August 1949 russia has the bomb: changes relationship between russia and everyone. October 1949: china falls to communism: chairman mao, china went from a peasant lead country to a industrialized country. Truman suggested that he was accountable for everything that happens while he"s president. Hiroshima and nagasaki: theres a big debate on if the us should have dropped the bomb or not.
