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Yalta Conference
Soruce The yalta conference started in February 4 to 11, 1945, it was the World War II meeting of the heads of the governments which included the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stal were the big boys in the meeting and all for discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Berlin Declaration
Source of June 5, 1945 the declaration confirmed the continued existence of the German Reich as a whole, the division of Allied-occupied Germany into four occupation zones according to the Yalta Conference. the four lands of germany, untied states, united kingdom, and lastly the soviet union -
Potsdam Conference
Soruce from the begining of july 17 all the way to august 2 1945 the conference made out of the three heads of the government of the USSR, USA and UK. they were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. the people of the tree head were Stalin, Churchill, and Truman. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty problems, and working on the the effects of the ww II. -
North Vietnam
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Iron Curtain Speech
soruce Churchill, who won the re-election for the title of prime minister in 1945, was invited to give a speech in a College in Fulton, Missouri. President Harry S. Truman joined Churchill on the platform and listened to his speech. Churchill began by praising the United States, which he declared stood “at the pinnacle of world power.” It soon became that the whole purpose of his talk was to argue that of a “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain so we can have peace -
First Indochina War
sourceThe First Indochina War also known as Indochina War on the fance. It began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946 all the way through until Augusy, 1, 1954. The war was the fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South from September 1945. -
Marshall Plan
SOURCEThe Marshall Plan officially was named European Recovery Programorthe ERP. It was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion. In today money right now is $120 billion. In economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
Containment Policy
SORCEIt is known as the Cold War policy for United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge the communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. -
The Berlin Blockade
Source The Berlin Blockade began at 1 April 1948 – 12 May 1948 it was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and many other ways to have access to the sectors of Berlin under the Western control. -
Berlin Airlift
Source In June 1948, the Russians who wanted to take Berlin. Russians closed all highways, and railroads from western Germans land into western occupied Berlin. They believed it would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city. Instead of retreating from West Berlin the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air and was called berlin airlift -
NATO
Source The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of defence where by its members agree to a mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party thats not in the treaty -
people republic of china founded
SourceThe history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since October 1, 1949, right after the near complete victory by the Communist Party of China in the Chinese Civil War that happen. China's old system of landlord ownership of farmland and peasants was replaced with a distribution system in favor of poor and the people who owned no land so they could farm. -
second red scare
sourceA Red Scare is the fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about the worker/socialist revolution and the political radicalism. The Second Red Scare was focused on the national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both. The second Red Scare happened after World War II (1939–45) -
Korean War - American involvement
Soruce The Korean War 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 it was a war between North and South Korea, in which a the United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which the soviet union also assisted in the war. The war rose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed right afterwards the korean war -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
<ahref='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg' >Soruce </a> Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg both died in june 19 1953 and they were American citizens executed for to commiting giving out informaton about the atomic bomb to the soviet unioln. -
Eisenhower Presidency
Source Eisenhower was 34th President of the United States from 1953 - 1961. He was a general in the United States Army during World War II and was as Supreme Commander in the Allied Forces of Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa during Operation Torch in 1942–43. Also in 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO -
Iranian coup d'état
Source The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, also known as in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, and was to overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, masterminded by the United States and backed up by the United Kingdom -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev NikitaKhrushchev April 15,1894 – September 11, 1971 he was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful existence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. He was known for his speeches -
Warsaw pact
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it was a collective defense treaty among the eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War the Warsaw Pact was in part a Soviet military reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955. -
Hungarian Revolution
SourceThe Hungarian Revolution of 1956 but also called Hungarian Uprising of 1956. It was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet's policies, lasting from 23 October lasted all the way to 10 November 1956. Though leaderless when it began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II. -
Suez Crisis
source The Suez Crisis, also was known as the name of Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation was a invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. When the fighting started the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations came in and forced the three invaders to withdraw. On October 29, Israel invaded Egyptian Sinai. Britain and France said something to make the joint ultimatum to cease fire. -
sputnik
Source The sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. It was visible all around the Earth and the radio pulses were detectable. This surprise 1957 success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race. -
Cuban revolution
Source The Cuban Revolution started at 1953 and ended at 1959 was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's July Movement and its allies against the US-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, -
U-2 incident
source The U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. when a U.S. U-2 spy plane got shot down in Soviet airspace.the United States government tried to cover up the U-2 purpose but was forced to admit but found in the shot down plane was the rest of the planeand it had photos of military bases in Russia taken by the aircraft. -
Kennedy presidency
sourceThe United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. This election is notable as being the first presidential election in which both major party candidates were born in the 20th century. Kennedy received 112,827 (0.17%) more votes than Nixon nationwide -
Checkpoint Charlie
SourceThe name Checkpoint Charlie or also known as Checkpoint C was the given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. Walter Ulbricht maneuvered his way to get the Soviet Union's permission for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop Eastern Bloc emigration westward through the Soviet border system, preventing escape across the city sector border from East Berlin side all the way to West Berlin side -
first man in space
SourceYuri Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot. He was the first human to journey into outer space, was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. his name went into the books when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12 1961. -
The Bay of Pigs
Source The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group of the Brigade 2506 on april, 17,1961. It was intended to overthrow the Communist government that was controlled Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was sadly defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces, under the direct command of the Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro. -
JFK assassination
source John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, in Dallas at Texas. Kennedy was shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife and to in the books of history kennedy's death marked the fourth successful assassination of an American President pf the united states. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Source President Lyndon Johnson said that two days ago, that thier was u.s. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin that had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. President johnson dispatched u.s. planes against the attackers and he asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. the resolution was “to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia” passed on August 7,The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or was called Southeast Asia Resolution, enacted in August 10, 1964, -
Prague Spring
SourceThe Prague Spring was a period of time of the political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the (KSČ), and continued the wat to the 21st of August when the Soviet Union and members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms. -
SALT I
Sourcein the late 1960s, the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon building a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile designed purpose to reach parity with the United States. In 1967, President Johnson said that the Soviet Union started to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile defense system around Moscow. -
Richard nixon
sourceRichard Nixon was our 37th President of the United States, he served from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office ever. Nixon had served in the past as a U.S. representative and senator from California and he was our 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953-1960. He died in April 22, 1994 -
Apollo 11
SourceApollo 11 was the spaceflightthat landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong spent al least two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less, and together they collected 47.5 pounds=21.5 kg of lunar material for the return to Earth. Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal given in 1961 by the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Sourcethe Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 also known as the June Fourth Incident to some people. were popular demonstrations in Beijing that took place around the spring of 1989 and it received broad support from the city residents,. The protests were suppressed by some force by the hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce law in the country's troops with assault rifles and tanks made casualties on civilians trying to block the military's advance towards the heart of beijing -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
sourceThe dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991 result to the declaration no. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, acknowledging the independence of thier own. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, twas the eighth and the last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office closed and handed over the powers of the office like control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes they had and much more. -
soviet union tests a-bomb
SourceThe Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb it was top secret research program that all begun during World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project The Soviets rushed the program right after the Americans atomic bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet atomic project was charged with gathering intelligence on the German nuclear energy project same with the American nuclear efforts. After the war.
