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The Potsdam Conference
The "Big Three" meeting and negotiating what to do at the end of the war. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, “From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” -
The Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. -
The Molotov Plan
Created in order to provide aid to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and were the given jail time for suspected communist activities. -
The Marshall Plan
America gave aid to Western Europe to help rebuild their economies. -
The Berlin Airlift
First International crisis during the Cold War.Since the Western controlled of Berlin was blocked from anything coming in or out, it was a rescue mission. -
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The Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
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The Alger Hiss Case
Whittaker Chambers, who was a former U.S Communist member, testified in court that Alger Hiss was a part of the Communist Party, but Hiss denied the charge. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The USSR officially detonates their first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightening" -
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The Korean War
It began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.S helped South Korea, while China and the Soviet Union helped the North. -
The Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were tried for accusations of selling nuclear secrets to Russia and were executed for espionage. -
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The dramatic confrontation of the first Indochina war between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
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Army- McCarthy Hearings
A series of hearings held by the U.S Senates Subcommittee about accusations between the States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
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The Geneva Conference
A conference held to negotiate and settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
The Warsaw Pact
Was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellites in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
The Invasion of Hungary
Started as a student revolt against communism. -
The Berlin Wall
The wall divided west Berlin from surrounding East Germany, but was opened in November 1989 and deconstruction stared June 13, 1990. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
