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Yalta Confrence
churchill and stalin agreed to meet with FDR to sort out land and what happened in the war. towads end of war -
VE-day
the day marking the Allied victory in Europe -
Potsdam Conference
Japan warned Japan to surrender or we will destroy you
Stalin mad because he didn't just directly state it -
Atomic bomb
bombing of Hiroshema and Nagasaki -
VJ-day
Japan ceased fighting in World War I -
Iron curtain speech
growing barrier between the east and the west. speec given by winston churchill about the division -
Moltov Plan
countered the marshall plan
Same deal as the Marshall Plan but supporting communism -
Berlin blockade
Halted land travel into west germany
Used to dissuade United States and Great Britain drom merging west -
Marshall Plan
Funding for European countries to rebuild their economies with the contingency and having a anti-communist government -
Truman Doctorine Announced
US pledges to support anyone attempting to free themselves from a communist rule -
NATO created
A military alliance between most of the western european countries canada and united states using collective security -
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Korean War
between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea -
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Korean War
between korea and soviet union when the korean army invaded the soviet unions land -
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Cuban Revolution
revolt against head leader of cuba. Lead by the united states and the cuban rebels -
Warsaw pact created
a direct opposition of NATO between soviet union and western european countries -
Sputnik
a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
U2 Incident
U2 spy plane from the USA was shot down in soviet air space -
Berlin wall
Wall built to keep west and east germany seperated -
Bay of Pigs
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. governmen -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba -
Lunar Landing
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moon lander. Designed for landing on other planets. (in this case the moon)