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Austin and Greg's chapter 26 timline

By gmay73
  • The Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference
    It was held February 4,11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta.
  • The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco

    The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco
    United Nations is the foundational treaty of the international organization called the United Nations. It was signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, United States.
  • The Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference
    iy was held on July 16 to August 2, 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
  • Army McCarthy Hearings

    Army McCarthy Hearings
    The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy
  • Launch of sputnick

    Launch of sputnick
    It was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1's success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the Space Race
  • • The U-2 Incident

    •	The U-2 Incident
    U.S. spy plane was shot down over soviet airspace. it was a great embarrassment to the U.S.and prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union.