Cold War

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference was basically to discuss about the post war in Europe.
  • Nuclear Arms race

    Nuclear Arms race
    US and Soviet beginning to creat stockpiles of weapons. They sought new ones to deliver the weapons to potential targets.
  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb
    US uses the first atomic bomb against Japan. The US uses atomic bomb against Japan because Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Trumans goal was to destroy the entire city without carrying about the inoccent people.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Gave money to the countries that were being attacked by communism.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII
  • Communist Takeovers

    Communist Takeovers
    Communist parties began to take over in North Korea. North Korea once it was communist it began to try and take control of all Korea. Communisim became well known quickly.
  • NATO

    NATO
    North Altantic Treaty Organization. This treaty involved 12 nations including the United Kingdom.This was After the stopping of communism.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Japanese were forcing koreans to work in labor for them. Later on the US landed in North Korea. Koreans in that time were all communist. Then North Korea and South Korea started attacking each other.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam war was between the US with South Vietnam , and North Vietnam. The South Vietnam was about to become communist.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    After the US and the Soviet Union endevored and demonstrated their powers they decided to show their scientific capabilities, they competed in superiority in space.
  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy
    Joseph McCarthy was a stong but dirty man that all he wanted was to gain power. Later on he started his era McCarthyism.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    The United States was feeling threatened by Cuba because they were the only western countrie in the hemisphere that had adopted communism.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    The Berlin wall was build to prevent the access of the Eastern side of Berlin.The Berlin wall was to separate the communist parties since Germany had been separated in four parts, U, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
  • Cuban Mssile Crisis

    Cuban Mssile Crisis
    The Soviet was sending weapons over to Cuba.Cuba later on saw the U-2 spy pass by over Cuba and photographed a surface to air missile site.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    This pact was between the eastern European countries. The warsaw does not have an independent organizational structure but functions as part of the Soviet ministry.