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United Nations
In 1945, The Allies founded the United Nations as an an international organization to promote world peace and progress. The United Nations replaced the League of Nations after it had failed to prevent World War Two. The goal of the United Nations was to increase political and economic cooperation among other countries. The organization works on improving human rights and reducing global conflict. This was a big deal because it brought cooperation between countries. -
The creation of the " Iron Speech"
The Iron curtain speech given by Winston Churchill was one of the most popular speech from the cold war period. Churchill had condemned the soviet union's policies in Europe and declares," From stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, a Iron curtain has descended across the continent". The iron curtain was a imaginary boundary that separated Europe in to two separate parts until the end of the cold war in 1991. -
The Truman Election
Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, Truman was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States. Democratic party Harry S. Truman defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by two million votes. He served president during the final months of World War II, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949. NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe.Its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation. -
China : New communist country
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China or ROP for short China became a communist country because meanwhile, the Soviet Union occupied Manchuria and only pulled out when Chinese Communist forces were in place to claim that territory. -
Anti-Communist
Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. It reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when America and the Soviet Union engaged in an intense rivalry. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began, along with his wife.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. The trial lasted a month, finally ending on April 4 and were sentenced to death row. Due to the prosecution it intensified Red Scare. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower: New President
Dwight David Eisenhower born on October 14,1890, was an American politician and was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. On Tuesday, November 4, 1952, Republican Eisenhower won the Presidential election by a landslide against Adlai Stevenson -
The Death Of Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Stalin prosecuted a reign of terror, purges, executions, and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything that got in the way of foreign, especially Western European, influence.It is believed that he died of a massive Stroke on March 5, 1953, in Moscow. He is remembered as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi domination. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact formed by the Soviet Union on May 14, 1955;is a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. The Soviet Union created Warsar Pact in response to NATO. This event is important because it provided stablity between both conflicting forces and was a form of non-nuclear confrontation between the allied Soviet and the United States -
Joseph MacCarthy: Key Figure Dies
Joseph McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. McCarthy was born in 1908 in Grand Chute Township Wisconsin, and died in Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2, 1957, at the age of 48. The official cause of death was widely accepted that this was caused by alcoholism. McCarthy's death was a big deal because he had been a key figure from “Red Scare”. -
Khrushchev Visiting the Country
On September 25, 1959 Khrushchev visited the United States for 12 days. Khrushchev, his wife, and President Dwight Eisenhower spent the days traveling across the country. He was amazed at what he had discovered. -
John F. Kennedy: youngest President
John F. Kennedy born on May 29, 1917, in Brooklyn, Massachusetts,was an American politician and served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S.. On November 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic and served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
A New World Wide Celebrity
On April 12, 1961 The Soviet Union became a world wide celebrity because of a a man named Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into space, he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft. Gagarin said, “Flight is proceeding normally; I am well.” during his one hour and 48 minutes in space. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.Constructed by the German Democratic Republic,the Wall completely cut off, West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. As the Cold War began to unfold across Eastern Europe,the head of the East German Communist Party announced that the citizens could cross the border whenever they pleased. This event was important because it kept Western “racist” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. -
The Marshal Plan
The marshal plan officially known as the European Recovery Program or ERP for short, was an american initiative to aid western Europe, in witch the united states gave over 12 billion dollars in economic support to help rebuild the western economies after the end of the war.
