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Yalta Conference
This was a strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. -
Potsdam Conference
A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administartion of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
United Nations formation
Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's promise to help nations struggling agianst communist movements -
Marshall Plan
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
Program in which U.S and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade. -
NATO formation
This was a military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion. -
Era of McCarthyism begins
A senator from Wisconsin, made a speech claiming to have a list of 205 people in the State Department. -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
This was a conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea. -
Rosenberg Execution
Where Julius and Ethel were executed. -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
The war was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. -
Warsaw Pact formation
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. -
House Un-American Activities Committee formed
This was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. -
First American in Space
Alan Sheperd becomes the first American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The border between East and West Berlin is opened and daily half a million people cross the border. -
First Man on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.
