Cold War

  • House Un-American Activities Committee formed

    House Un-American Activities Committee formed

    To investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Wartime meeting with the heads of government.
  • United Nations formation

    United Nations formation

    Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis Powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    This conference was to negotiate terms for the end of World War ll.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Offers food and aid to Greece and Turkey so they will resist communism.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Opens aid to other European countries.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    To carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. 4,000 tons a day was required.
  • NATO formation

    NATO formation

    Is a military alliance joining nations of West Europe and North America.
  • North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    North Korean Invasion of South Korea

    Conflict between Communist and non-communist forces in Korea.
  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution

    American communists who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage.
  • Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    Armistice Signed Ending Korean War

    Says that the 155 mile battlefront would stop and the communists also agreed to release 3,500 POW's. Within a week.
  • Warsaw Pact formation

    Warsaw Pact formation

    was formed by the soviet union and its satellites in response to NATO.
  • Sputnik 1 Launched

    Sputnik 1 Launched

    Earths 1st orbiting artificial satellite.
  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    Yuri Gagarin became the 1st human in outer space and the first to orbit the earth and received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepard Jr was the second person and first American in space, and fifth person to walk thee moon.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The wall stopped almost all such immigration and separated the GDR from West Berlin for more than a quarter of a centuary.
  • First Man on the Moon

    First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk the moon using the aircraft Apollo 11.