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Potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which were represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic bombs
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Long telegram
Ambassador George F. Kennan writes to the Secretary of State with a lengthy analysis of Soviet policy in an attempt to explain their recent uncooperative behavior. This message would later become
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iron curtain speech
speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a American foreign policy with the main goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan European Recovery Program was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. -
Berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade was created to block supplies coming in to west Berlin from the U.S. -
berlin airlift
The Berlin Airlift was done by the U.S. where American pilots would fly over the Berlin Blockade bringing supplies to Western Berlin -
Chinese communist revolution
China had started a communist revolution in 1948 because of the failing economy and country -
NATO
NATO was created from a number of countries on the east side of the world to project Europe from any threats. -
Alger hiss case
Alger Hiss was being prosecuted for being a spy for the Soviet Union back in the 1930's. -
First soviet bomb test
The soviet Union created a bomb a lot quicker than they should've because they had spies in the Manhattan project. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between north and South Korea. North Korea had help from China and South Korea had help from the UN. Both North and South Korea wanted to be unified but couldn't agree on policies. North Korea wanted Korea to be unified as a communist country and South Korea wanted democracy. -
Rosenburg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were spies for the Soviet Union were convicted of espionage providing secrets about the American Military and were executed in 1953. -
Korean Armistice
The Korean Armistice was an agreement to cease all fire in the Korean was and agree to a "tie". -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings in which the army was arguing with the U.S. Senator about the accusations that the U.S. Senator was pushing the army to much. -
Battle of dien bien phu
Forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
Hungarian revolution
A revolution across the whole country of Hungarian was down to get the Stalinist government out of the country and pick up democratic policies from the USSR. -
U2 incident
A U.S. U2 spy plane was flying over the Soviet Union taking aerial pictures it was shot down by the Soviet air defense. -
Bay of pigs invasion
The U.S had hired and trained Cuban exiles to go to Cuba and try and invasion on the country but they were quickly all killed. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin wall was built by the Soviet Union to divide Berlin from The Soviet part from the rest of the city. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Soviet Union was using Cuba to build nuclear weapons. The missiles ad supplies being brought to Cuba brought much tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S. until the Soviet Union stopped building the bombs and remove them. -
Assassination of JFK
While in a parade through Dallas Texas President Kennedy was shot 2 times and killed. -
tonkin Gulf resolution
North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
1968 riots at democratic convention
Police riot in full swing in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, television broadcasts live as anti-war protesters chant "The whole world is watching", -
Kent state
Kent State's killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. -
Ceasefire in vietnam
The U.S. agreed to send home remaining military personnel from South Vietnam within 60 days. North Vietnam agreed to return all American prisoners of war. North Vietnam was allowed to leave 150,000 soldiers and to retain the territory it controlled in South Vietnam. -
reagan elected
President Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes received by a non-incumbent presidential candidate of over a million votes. Promised restoration of military forces -
SDI announced
Reagan announced SDI on national television stating that he calls "upon the scientific community in this country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" -
'tear down this wall' Speech
Reagan's harsh challenge to tear down the Berlin Wall gave shape to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform, the wall came down two years later. -
The fall of the berlin wall
East Berlin's spokesman for the communist party announced a change in his city's relationship with the West. Starting at midnight he stated the citizens of the GDR are allowed were free to cross the country's borders.