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Yalta conference.
Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin: the "Big Three".Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe.
The Cold War Begins.
The Allies of World War II (the USA, the USSR, Great Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. The Allied nations agree that free elections are to be held in all countries occupied by Nazi Germany.
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VE Day.
VE day: Victory in Europe.Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin.
On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz.
The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany. -
War on Japan.
Russia declares war on Japan.
The Soviets terminated Japanese control of Manchukuo, Mengjiang (inner Mongolia),northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands.
The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army was a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the termination of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.
The United States drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Following a firebombing campaign that destroyed many Japanese cities, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of Japan. The war in Europe ended when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on 8 May, but the Pacific War continued.
Together with the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, the United States called for a surrender of Japan in the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, threatening Japan with "prompt and utter destruction". -
End of WWII.
Japanese surrender End of World War II.
In August 14 the radio address, called the Gyokuon-hōsō ("Jewel Voice Broadcast"), he announced the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the Allies. -
Communism and Capitalism.
Stalin hostile speech:communism & capitalism were incompatible.
Stalin delivered a speech to a meeting of voters of the Stalin Electoral District in Moscow.In Stalin's Speech he said communism and capitalism were incompatible.
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Truman Doctrine.
Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War.
The United States supplied the military and economic power to enable the Greek monarchy to defeat an army of communist-led insurgents in 1947 and won a victory which has become a model for U.S. relations toward civil wars and insurgencies- -
Truman's Loyalty.
Truman's Loyalty Program created to catch Cold War spies.
The plan was to ferret out Communist in every place in American Society. It included the media, government, and business. In the long run it was seen as the red scare. There was a Communist everywhere, and they where Un-American. -
Communist Mao Zedong.
Communist Mao Zedong takes control of China and establishes the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War begins.
Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weap.was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
Federal Civil Defense Administration.
Was organized by Democratic president Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950, and became an official government agency on January 12, 1951. The agency distributed posters, programs, and information about communism and the threat of communist attacks. -
Korean War ends.
After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of "limited war." -
Ike's Atoms for Peace speech.
"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953.
The United States then launched an "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions within the U.S. and throughout the world. The first nuclear reactors in Iran and Pakistan were built under the program by American Machine. and Foundry. -
USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan.
Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen. The insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as billions of dollars from the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and other countries.
The decade-long war resulted in millions of Afghans fleeing their country, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. Hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians were killed in addit -
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory.
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month. -
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Was a 14-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict.
It is also the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction (MAD) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
Construction of Berlin Wall begins.
In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
President Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. -
Soviet Red Army.
This has to do with Prague spring in 1968, which was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the soviet union after world war II. -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon.
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface 6 hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less; and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft -
Egypt and Syria attack Israel.
Egypt requests Soviet aid.
As when Israeli aircraft hit a munitions stockpile in Sudan. Apparently of Iranian weapons destined for Hamas in Gaza, Israel has again opted for ambiguity. It has banned military correspondents from saying whether it carried out the attack and has refrained from triumphalism, perhaps with the intention of calming the reactions of its foes. -
Soviet forces invade Afghanistan.
In Christmas 1979, Russian paratroopers landed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The country was already in the grip of a civil war. The prime minister, Hazifullah Amin, tried to sweep aside Muslim tradition within the nation and he wanted a more western slant to Afghanistan. This outraged the majority of those in Afghanistan as a strong tradition of Muslim belief was common in the country. -
President Reagan and Gorbachev.
President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe. -
Poland becomes independent.
Poles resisted Communism many times. Massive protests in the years 1956, 1968, 1970 and 1976 did not yield results, apart from tactical concessions of the leaders of the Polish United Workers’ Party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza). However, the resistance of the society caused that in Poland, the only such country of the Soviet bloc, agriculture was not collectivised and the Catholic Church preserved its independence. -
Berlin Wall is demolished.
Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany
