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The Cold War
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The Yalta Conference
Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland and how things would be handled differently. -
The United Nations
Delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco to adopt a charter or statement of principles for the UN. -
The Potsdam Conference
Truman first met with stalin in july 1945 in potsdam germany. churchill was replaced by clemente attlee during the conference. -
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. The Army accused chief committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and a friend of Cohn's. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad -
The Launch of Sputnik
The launching of Sputnik I by the Soviet Union began the "space war" with the United States. It was the first artifial satellite that was put in to the Earth's orbit. It helped with research of the atmosphere and travels at 18,000 mi per hour and completing an orbit in 96.2 minutes. -
The U-2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union territory.
