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Potsdam Conference
gathering to decide how to administer Germany, solving issues in the peace treaty -
atomic bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki introduced the beginning of the atomic age -
Long Telegram
The long telegram explained Soviet motivations by pointing to the history of Russian rulers and their ideology of Marxism–Leninism, viewing the rest of the world as hostile in order to justify their continued hold on power despite lacking popular support. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a transfer of 13 billion dollars in recovery programs to Western European economys after WW2 -
Iron Curtain Speech
Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood blacklist, list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist or subversive ties, generated by Hollywood studios, -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an anti-fascist alliance to a policy that contained soviet expansion -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Also known as the war of liberation, it was a communist uprising led by the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Mao Zedong -
Berlin Blockade
The soviets blocked off supply trucks and trains to the soviet controlled side of berlin starving the people of critical supplies, -
The Berlin Airlift
the united states dropped supplies on the soviet controlled side of berlin to help the germans survive and help moral -
First Soviet bomb test
The testing of the first nuclear bomb that the Soviets had produced with help from stolen plans from the united states -
NATO
NATO was created, an alliance between multiple allied nations some of the nations included were the United States, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy just to name a few -
Alger Hiss case
was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. -
Korean War
the Korean war was between the north and south Korea where the us was fighting on the side of south Korea trying to prevent the spread of communism into south Korea and trying to unify the country -
Rosenberg trial
the trial that led to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for sharing secret atomic information with the soviet union -
Korean Armistice
The Korean Armistice Agreement is an armistice that brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War -
Army-McCarthy hearings
a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR -
U2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.