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Yalta Conference
-Involved the U.S., Great Britain, and Soviet Russia
-Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discuss the future of Europe After WWII
-Stalin,in agreement with Roosevelt and Churchill, would receive territory in Manchuria after the pacific theater -
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Cold War events
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Potsdam Conference
-Involved the U.S., Great Britain, and Soviet Russia
-Confirmation that Germany would be stripped of it's military and would be split into four zones and each zone would be under the control of the Allied nations.
-All German industries that aided in preoducing German military weapons were shut down as well. -
Red Scare
-period of time when the threat of communism in America became the primary fear of most americans.
-Federal employees were questioned to see if they were quialified to work in the government.
-Those that supported communism in the U.S posed a threat to national security. -
United Kigndom
-After the U.S. severed their nuclear programs with the UN, Great britain decided that they were going to be a nuclear power.
-Great britain's nuclear reactor went critical in 1948
-In 1952, Britain dropped "Hurricane", their first atomic device. -
Containment
-U.S. policy to prevent the spread of communism any farther.
-Forced the USSR to increase their influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam -
Marshall Plan
-Also called the Economic recovery Act
-Proposed by Georger Marshall
-Plan for the U.S. to aid Europe and Asia by sending over $17 billion in economic aid to help rebuild European colonies after WWII. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
-Germany was split into 4 zones. The Soviets controlled East Germany and the Allies controlled west Germany.
-Germans would try to leave East Germany in order to head to West Germany and reunite with family.
-The soviets created the Berlin Wall in order to keep their power over East Germany -
NATO
-North Atlantic Treaty organization
-an alliance which brings together free/soverign countries in order to create a collective security system against Communism
-Countries include the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, and Italy -
McCarthyism
-started by Senator Joseph McCarthy
-initiated the search of supposed communists spies holding government positions.
-extended to practically anyone who could've been convicted
-politicians were either jobless or had no say in foreign affairs
Celebrities lost their jobs and couldn't get work anywhere
-Ended in the late 1950s -
Korean War
-The UN, with U.S. troops, fought for Korea while China aided North Korea which was under Communist control.
-In 1953 Peace negotiations became more positive and an armistice was signed , ending the Korean war
-This was a huge disappointment to the U.S because this war was considered a tie and the U.S. has never tied with anyone up until this point. -
Sino-Soviet Treaty
-Created a 30-year alliance between Soviet Russia and China
-Chinese leader Mao Zedong looked to the USSR for economical aid when the U.S. placed a trading embargo on China in 1949.
-Both countries would aid eachother if one of them were attacked by allied countries. -
Civil Defense Act
-Organized by Harry S. Truman
-Created to provide Congress with the necessary measures it must take in order to protect the lives of the U.S. from an attack
-Federal government in charge of the Federal Civil Defense Administration and must provide the neccesary assistance. -
SEATO
-South East Asia Treaty Organization
- defensive pact to defend the involved nations from communist attacks. -
Warsaw Pact
-A collective defense treaty that involved 8 communists states within Eastern and central Europe.
-Made so the USSR could keep control of Europe -
Cuban Missile Crisis
-13 day confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba
-Closest point at which both counrties went into nuclear war.
-In response to Soviet ships delivering missiles in Cuba, the U.S. set up a naval blockade preventing Soviet ships from entering or leaving Cuba unless they didn't carry weapons. -
Domino Theory
-Created by president Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The theory that states that if one country falls to communism, then the surrounding countries will fall as well.
-Used so the U.S. can justify its support of a non-communism regime in South Korea. -
Sino U.S rapprochement
-President Nixon travels to the People's Republic of China to meet with Mao Zedong
-This meeting was an important step in imporving relations between the U.S. and the PRC -
SALT I
-Signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in Moscow.
-it was an agreement to place limits on anti-ballistic missile systems
-limited both countries to only 1 launch site and no more than 100 interceptor missiles.
