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On 1st January 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, supported by the representatives of 26 countries, published the Declaration by United Nations, a document that pledged their governments to continue fighting together against Nazi Germany and Japan during the Second World War.
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The conference at Yalta held in the Crimea on February 4-11, 1945 brought together the Big Three Allied leaders.
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The Big Three?Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman?met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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The Truman Doctrine offers aid and food to Greece and Turkey so they can resist communism.
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The Marshall Plan opens that aid to other European countries.
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National Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance joining nations of Western Europe and North America.
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The Berlin Airlift brings food and supplies to people trapped in Berlin after Stalin blockades to city- hoping to starve them into submission.
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In June 1949 the United States Army began to withdraw from South Korea.
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The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union’s response to West Germany joining NATO and came into being in May 1955.
