Transcript mapping-the-cold-war

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WWII & Cold War Europe
Map the Following Locations and Annotate Map with Key Events
Events are focused on Eastern Europe with locations that are pivotal in the Cold War
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Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania
Belarus (Belarussia)
Belgium & Holland
Finland & Norway
Italy & Greece
Czechoslovakia (no longer exists)
Yugoslavia (no longer exists)
And the following cities:
• London, UK
• Normandy Beach & Paris, France
• Warsaw, Krakow & Danzig/Gdansk, Poland
• Dresden & Berlin, Germany
• Kiev, Ukraine
• St. Petersburg (Petrograd-Leningrad), USSR
• Moscow & Volgograd (Stalingrad), USSR
• Jerusalem, Palestine (Israel)
1939:
Danzig & Warsaw Annexed by Germany
Aug: German USSR Treaty Divides Poland
Polish Jews order to wear Star of David
Germany bombs Scotland
USSR declares war on Finland
1940:
Unrestricted U-Boat War declared
Italy sides with Nazi Germany
Norwegian govt evacuated to London
Dutch surrender to Germany
Italy bombs British Palestine
Battle of Britain – German bombings
Berlin bombed by allies
Warsaw ghetto is established
Churchill elected PM of UK
Italians bomb oil supplies @ Cairo & Bahrain
Romania, Slovaks sign Tripartite Pact
1940:
USSR asks for terms to join Axis Powers
Katyn Massacre in Poland (USSR)
1941:
Deportation Austrian Jews - Auschwitz, Poland
Lend Lease Act by FDR & USA
Italians occupy Libya
Axis invasions of Yugoslavia & Greece
Siege of Leningrad (870+ days)
1942:
Battle for Stalingrad, Russia – KEY Nazi loss
1943:
Nov.-Dec: Tehran Conference
May: Allies control Libya and North Africa
Sept: Italy withdraws from war
Nov: USSR liberates Kiev
Nov: Berlin bombed again
US troops arrive in Europe throughout year
1944:
Jan; USSR enters Poland
March:USSR occupy Romania & Ukraine &
Crimean (including Yalta)
June: D Day Invasions
1945:
Feb: Yalta Conference
 Feb: Bombing of Dresden Germany
May : VE Day Victory in Europe
July- Aug: Potsdam Conference
1946:
March : Greek Civil War
March : Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech
1947:
 Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
January : Communists seize Poland
1948:
February: communists seize Czechoslovakia
June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
1949:
April 1949: NATO Established
1953:
March 1953: Death of Stalin
1954:
March: KGB Established
May: Geneva Peace Conference (re: Vietnam)
1955:
May 1955: Warsaw Pact
February 1956: Khrushchev delivers “Secret
Speech” (destalinization)
1956:
Oct- Nov 1956: Hungarian Uprising (crushed by
Red army)
1957:
January: Eisenhower Doctrine
October 1957: Launch of Sputnik
1960:
May 1960: U2 Spy plane shot down over USSR
1961:
August 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall
World War II
Nov-Dec
1943
Tehran
Conference
Aug. 1939
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Molotov–
Ribbentrop Pact
Sept. 1939
Nazi Invasion of
Poland
Feb 1945
Yalta
Conference
June 1941
Operation
Barbarossa Nazi
1942-1943 / 1941-1944
invasion of
Stalingrad & Leningrad
USSR
Great Patriotic War: 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 
Dec. 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
Aug. 1945
A-bomb
June 6,
1944
D-Day
May 8,
Aug 15,
1945
1945
VE Day
VJ Day
Victory in Victory in
Europe
Japan
The Cold War
Time Periods & Chronology
1945 – 1953
1st Cold War
1954 – 1968
Fluctuations
1969 – 1979
Détente
1979 – 1985
Cold War Part II
1985 – 1991
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