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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference started July 17, 1945 and went to August 2, 1945. The super powers discussed peace settlements for Europe but didn’t attempt to write peace treaties. The allies wanted to give Germany the opportunity to reconstruct itself. The U.S. bombed Japan with the “new weapon”, the atomic bomb. (Potsdam Conference) -
"Truman Doctrine" & Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine was introduced on March 12, 1947 by US President Harry S. Truman. The Truman Doctrine was made declaring immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece and Turkey, which was being threatened by the Communist insurrection and the Soviet expansion in the Mediterranean. Truman did this because they weren’t getting any more help from Great Britain and they were most likely going to get taken over by the Soviet. (Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan) -
"Marshall Plan" & Truman Doctrine 1
The Marshall Plan was introduced on April 1948-December 1951 by George C. Marshall. The Marshall Plan was a program designed to rehabilitate the economics of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. The US did this to help countries that were in need so they can protect themselves from the Soviets and reconstruct themselves. (Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan) -
"Marshall Plan" & Truman Doctrine
The Marshall plan was really successful and made many countries more powerful than it was before the plan. (Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan) -
NATO
NATO was an alliance established in 1949. It includes the U.S., Canada, and numerous European Countries. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union got into an arms race. First the U.S. was creating a defense against the Soviet Union’s power, but then the Soviet Union saw that the U.S was getting stronger than them so they also started to become more advanced. NATO started to fall apart, but the Soviet Union fell apart first. (NATO) -
Korean War 1
The Korean war was from June 1950 to July 1953. The Korean War included North and South Korea, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China. South Korea and North Korea went to war and after time many people joined into the battle. It happened after WWII, the U.S. took over South Korea and the Soviet Union took over North Korea. This made the two of them fight. (Korean War) -
Korean War 2
The Korean War took the lives of about 1,300,000 South Koreans, 1,000,000 Chinese, 500,000 North Koreans and 37,000 Americans. Korea remained divided and is still divided. (Korean War) -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war started in 1954 and included North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the US. The war ended on April 30, 1975. The Vietnam war was a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam that erupted because of the type of government that they wanted for Vietnam. Slowly, the US stopped sending help to South Vietnam and South Vietnam fell apart soon after that. North Vietnam won the war and they became united with South Vietnam. They made Vietnam, a communist Country. (Vietnam War) -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact treaty was started in May 14, 1955 and dissolved on July 1, 1991. The Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union stationed troops in Eastern Europe because of the Warsaw Pact. This happened because in 1955, the Soviet Union wanted a strong defense against NATO. This made the other countries frustrated at the Soviet Union, so they attacked the Soviet Union. (Warsaw Pact) -
Hungarian Revolution
The uprising started in 1956, it followed a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The speech attacked the period of Joseph Stalin rule. People were encouraged by the rumors of coming freedom, and active fighting broke out. They were fighting for Hungary to have a better government. The Soviets invaded Hungary and ended the revolution. Hungary became a autonomy. -
Suez Crisis
On July 26, 1956, the Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal. Egypt made a canal, but the U.S. and the British didn’t want because British and France thought that they will cut out their shipments of petroleum. Egypt made the Canal to fund a dam that the U.S. and the British weren’t funding. Ten Israeli Brigades invaded Egypt and then followed Britain and the U.S. (Suez Crisis) -
Space Race/Sputnik 1
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik Satellite into space. On January 31, 1958 the U.S. sent the Explorer Satellite into space. The Soviet Union sent a Satellite into space and this made the U.S. feel like they had less technology and less power than the Soviet Union so the U.S. caught up to the Soviet Union by sending a satellite to space also. This made the Space Race and the Arms Race. (Space Race/Sputnik) -
Space Race/Sputnik 2
This happened because and the U.S. and the Soviet Union were always trying to be better than each other. The both of them got satellites into space and the cuban missile crisis made them realize the power of the missiles that they were making. (Space Race/Sputnik) -
Cuban Missile Crisis 1
The Crisis was a 13-day political and military standoff on October 1962. On October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy notified Americans about the missiles. The U.S. figured out that there were Soviet Union missiles in Cuba and this started a crisis because Cuba was really close to the U.S., they were 90 miles away. The Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba for they can “Even the playing ground”. They wanted Cuba to be powerful. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 2
At the end, the Soviet Union took the missiles out of Cuba but because of that, the U.S. couldn’t invade Cuba.
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Glasnost
Glasnost was introduced in the late 1980s. Glasnost was a policy that was made to give the citizens more power with the government. The Soviet thought that if the citizens had more power with the government they can help fix the state that they were in now. This resulted in citizens having more freedom. (Glasnost) -
Perestroika
Perestroika was introduced in the mid 1980s. Perestroika was a policy made by Mikhail Gorbachev for the Soviet Union. The policy was mostly made to reconstruct the Soviet Union. The policy was made to bring the economy at par with other countries. Powers went against the policy and this lead to voting. (Perestroika)
