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Yalta Conference, Cold War Begins
A conferance between the United States, Great Britian, and the Soviet Union in which they planned to defeat Natzi Germany. -
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The Cold War
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U.S. uses first A-bomb in war, Japan surrenders, end of WWII
The allies of WWIIi conducted two atomic bombings againes the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weaposn in war to date. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the effects killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki, and roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. -
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
The iron curtain was descending across the continents. Soviet Union was gaining more control by installing communist government and polic3e states and b y crushing political and religious dissent. -
President Trueman declares an active role in Greece & Turkey (Trueman Docterine)
A policy set by Harry Truman saying that the U.S would now support Greece and turkey with economic and military aid. -
Communists take over Czechosolvakia
The general dissatisfaction within the Czechoslovak military became increasingly evident. In 1966 Czechoslovakia, following the lead of Romania, rejected the Soviet Union's call for more military integration within the Warsaw Pact and sought greater input in planning and strategy for the Warsaw Pact's non-Soviet members. -
U.S announces Marshall Plan
Truman's Secretary of State, announced details of what became known as the Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program. -
Soviets develop & test their first A-bomb
The soviets discovered the United States nuclear project. They came up with their first A – bomb, it was a clandestine research and development program begun during and post-World War II. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Korean war was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreeement of the victorious allies at teh conlusion of teh pacific war at the end of WWII. -
NATO establisted
Today, there are twenty-six member states in total. Three years after the end of the Cold War, NATO engaged in its first military action as part of an international effort to end two years of fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. -
Communists under Mao Zedong take control of China
After solidifying the reunification of China through his Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries, Mao enacted sweeping land reform, by using violence and terror to overthrow the feudal landlords before seizing their large estates and dividing the land into people's communes. -
Korean war is fought
The news spread quickly and disorder and violence erupted throughout the capital. The revolt spread quickly across Hungary, and the government fell. -
Sputnik launched- shart of space race
The space race was competition between United States and the Soviet Union to develop technology to successfully land on the moon. -
Rosenbergs tried and executed for espionage
Executed for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. This was the first exectution of civilans for espionage in United States history. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
Called the treaty of friendship between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955. -
Hungarian rebellion put down by Soviets
In order to maintain political prestige amond the uncommitted nations of the world, neither side could allow the other any advantage or congession. -
U-2 incident: American Spy plane shot down over USSR
Following WWII, the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union grew incresingly wary. This event had a lasting negative impact on U.S.- USSR relations. The details surrounding this event are to this day still shurouded in mystery. -
John F. Kennedy elected
He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. -
Khrushchev demands NATO withdraw troops from Berlin
The U.S.S.R. provoked the Berlin Crisis with an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin. This was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War. -
Bay Of Pigs invasion
This was an unsuccessful action by trained forces of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba. They had support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to destroy the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall Built
The Berlin wall was built to separate the three zones controlled by France, Britain and America. -
U.S sends "advisors" to Vietnam
President Kennedy sends advisors to South Vitnam to prevent the spread of communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the world has ever been to a nuclear war. The Soviets installed nuclear bombs and it was up to John F. Kennedy to come to an agreement with Nikita Khrushchev. -
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade. Kennedy is the most recent of the four Presidents who were assassinated. -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Castro had effectively taken over as leader of Cuba, which he remained for the next four decades. Castro made radical changes in Cuba, including nationalizing industry, collectivizing agriculture, and seizing American-owned businesses and farms. -
Wisconsin Sen. McCarthy begins Communitst witch hunt
During this time, churches were ordered to have their governing members take loyalty oaths, stating they were not communists. All teachers were forced to take the oath or lose their jobs.
