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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was when Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt met to discuss Europe's post war organization. -
FDR dies
Franklin D. Roosevelt suffers a stroke on vacation -
Potsdam Conference
Truman tells Stalin the US has nuclear weapons -
Hiroshima
Truman has the military use an atomic bomb for the first time on the city of Hiroshima in Japan -
Nagasaki
Truman ordered the US military to drop an atomic bomb for the second and last time on the city of Nagasaki in Japan in order to end World War II -
Japan Surrenders
Japanese surrender to General Douglas MacArthur on the USS Missouri -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill warns the Iron Curtain going down across Europe. The Iron Curtain was was the conflict between the Soviet Union blocking itself from the non-Soviet Union controlled areas -
Phillippines Independence
The Phillippines gained independence from the United States -
Cold War
Bernard Baruch described the relations between the soviet union and the united states as the "Cold War" -
The Mashall Plan
The Marshall Plan was signed by Truman and it was to give Europe 12.4 billion dollars to help their enconomy -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded by a group of cuntries, some of which include, United States, Denmark, Canada, Italy and others in order to resist communist expansion -
Stalin dies
Stalin dies, which creates a power struggle to succed him -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw PAct was founded by Eastern European Countries and the Soviet Union it is the communist opposite to NATO -
Sputnix
Sputnik, a Russian satellite is launched into space -
Bay of Pigs
An invasion of Cuba backed by the CIA ends in failure, and strengthed Castro's administration -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall is built by the soviets to cut off West Berlin from East Germany, the wanted to prevent emigration and defection that marked east germany -
Boycott olympics
The United States and their allies boycotted the olympics in Moscow -
Cold War Ends
Soviets cease all operations
