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Potsdam Conference (2)
Potsdam Conference. Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945) Summit meeting of Allied leaders in World War II, held in Potsdam, Germany. The main participants were US President Harry S Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and the British Prime Minister, at first Churchill, later Attlee. -
Hollywood 10
- Fair Wage Protests. After the Great Depression, many people feared that they could lose their jobs, and many workers were being underpaid. ...
- The Wrath of Hedda Hopper.
- The Hollywood Ten.
- The Company Man. ...
- Killing Feminism. ...
- John Wayne Supported The Witch Hunt. ...
- Walt Disney and the MPA. ...
- Ronald Reagan Took a Stand.
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Russian Revoluton 1917 (1)
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki (3)
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.Nov 18, 2009 -
Truman Doctrine
Truman doctrine. Truman doctrine the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the cold war. -
Iron Curtain
The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
soviet bomb test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War 11. -
Korean War (10)
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
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NATO (11)
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Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
In 1954, shortly after the publication of Air Force Maunual 1-2, President Eisenhower adopted a foreign policy of “massive retaliation.” This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail.