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potsdam conference
Allied conference of World War II was held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Atomic bomb
Nuclear weapon, a device designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes. -
Long telegram
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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. The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century. -
Berlin blockade
Berlin blockade, the international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Nato
The North Atlantic Treaty of April 4, 1949, sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. France withdrew from the integrated military command of NATO in 1966 but remained a member of the organization; it resumed its position in NATO’s military -
Berlin Airlift
Despite dire shortages of fuel and electricity, the airlift kept life going in West Berlin for 11 months then the Soviet Union lifted the blockade. The airlift continued until September 30, at a total cost of $224 million and after delivery of 2,323,738 tons of food, fuel, machinery, and other supplies. -
First soviet bomb test
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1 they tested it at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. -
Chinese communist revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution known in mainland China as the War of Liberation was the conflict led by Chairman Mao Zedong that resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 -
Korean war
the Korean war began around 1950-1953 when the communist Koreans ( south ) crossed the 38 parallel and began to invade the non-communist Koreans ( north )