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The yalta conference
This was the official gathering of the British prime minister Winston Churchill,soviet leader Joseph Stalin and president Franklin D Roosevelt. -
United Nations
The day the charter of the United Nations was signed. -
United Nations
On this historic day the charter of the United Nations was signed. -
Atomic bomb tested
This day,the U.S conducts the first test the A-bomb at the trinity bomb site in central New Mexico -
A-bomb tested
This is the day the U.S conducted the first test of the atomic bomb(Kablamo!!) at the trinity bomb site in central New Mexico. -
Potsdam conference
This day Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for ending WWII -
A-bomb dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
On this day the U.S dropped a uranium gun type atomic bomb(apparently called little boy... I don't why, it was neither little nor a boy, but what do I know)on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later another plutonium implosion(wow. Big words)type bomb(fat man... honestly who came up with these names) was dropped in Nagasaki(also in Japan). -
Churchills iron curtain speech
British prime minister, sir Winston Churchill was at the Westminster college in Missouri, where he gave his "iron curtain" speech. -
Truman doctrine
This was an American foreign policy created to out-power the soviets geo-political invasion during the Cold War. -
Marshall plan
On this day, the foreign Act(the Marshall plan) was signed into law by president harry Truman(grandfather of Harry Potter....I'm just Kidding!!) -
Berlin blockade
This day the soveit union blocked all the connecting roads and railroad tracks from the West Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic treaty organization was created by the 12 western nations for intergovernmental military alliance based on the treaty signed that was signed -
Communist revolution in China
Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader) declared the creation of the people's republic of communist (PRC) this resulted in a civil war between Chinese communist party (CCP) and the nationalist party. -
Korean War
Began when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korea spilled across the 38th parallel, boundaries between the soviet backed democratic people's Republic of Korea to the south. -
Hydrogen bomb
This is a very powerful nuclear weapon. The energy released in a hydrogen bomb is way higher than that of an atomic bomb. It derives its energy from atomic fusion -
SEATO
This is the Southeast Asia treaty organization. It is an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia. -
Warsaw Pact
This is the name given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, east Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Signed in 1955 it was officially called the treaty of friendship -
Sputnik
This was the worlds first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union. It was the size of beach ball, but brought in new political, military, technological advancement (big words. I know) -
Bay of pigs
This was the failed military invasion of Cuba. It began when the CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees in an attempt to defeat communism. Did it work? NO! -
Vietnam war
AKA second indochina war.it was the war between northern Vietnam and south Vietnam. -
Berlin Wall built
This was the barred wire and concrete "antifascistischer schutzwall" between east and West Berlin. -
Cuban missile crisis
AKA the October scare was direct confrontation between the U.S and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the time when the two powers came close to nuclear conflict.
