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Yalta Conference
yalta conference
The Yalta Conference was on February 4 to the 11th, 1945. Stalin, Bristish Prime Minister Winston, and president Franklin D. Roosevelt were in this group. The inportance of this conference was to set the division of Germany, after that Stalin wanted war with japan,also made many goverments to reuild their way of running things, and also conviced Stalin to join UN making the five votes possible. -
Berlin Declaration
Berlin Declaration
Four men that were commanders, sent by leaders signed three documents having to deal with the vanquished and occupied Germany. The first document became known as the Berlin Declaration. -
potsdam conference
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was where three of the strongest rules came together to discussed plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
North vietnam
North vietnam
The two sections were not unlike North and South in the United States prior to the Civil War; their people did not fully trust each other. - See more at: http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war#sthash.iOtO5jXr.dpuf -
Iron Curtain Speech
iron curtain
the iron curtain was mostly use to separting Europe into two different areas after the world war 2. It has said that if one crosses the area or either side, people would die. -
First Indochina War
First Indochina War
France focused on the fortune withheld in Indochina. The French had been in the area for centuries, yet policies changed when other Western European nations began to colonize and claim their own pieces of Asia. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan
This plan was named after the Secretary of State George C. Marshall. They named it after jim because he was the one that said the speech which gave them the idea of to save the economics of that time. -
Containment Policy
containment policy
The United States foreign policy doctrine taken by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are capable from expanding their influence. -
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Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was roads being protected/invaded so many supplies wouldn't get in to the cities and everyone would come to an agreement. The Berlin Blockade didn't last long before armied forces took it down from the cities who needed the supplies. -
NATO
nato
The nato was a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. NATO was the most inportant in the U.S.-led military alliance against the Soviet Union throughout the duration of the Cold War. -
Soviet Union tests A-Bomb
Soviet Union tests A-Bomb
the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
People’s Republic of China founded
People’s Republic of China founded
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the -
Korean War - American involvement
<a href='http://http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/korean-war-begins' >Korean War - American involvement
On this day of June 25, 1950 North Korea suprised attack the South Korean army, when that happened the United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.’s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
This two people were sentence to death because they were commit to espionage for the Soviet Union. -
Eisenhower Presidency
Eisenhower Presidency
Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day. He was the 34th president. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He fought for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He got kicked out of office because of some porblem he created while he was in office. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union’s response to West Germany joining NATO. The Warsaw Pact, officially the ‘Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance’. The warsaw pact was signed and or made on the day of may 14,1955. -
Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, the joint British-French enterprise which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869. Nasser’s announcement came about following months of mounting political tensions between Egypt, Britain, and France. -
Sputnik
Sputnik
the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite. This satellite was a big advantage to the soviet union because with this satellite allowed they to see what there enemies had in there grounds and what to look out for. -
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Revolution
the United States supported Castro but when he embraced communism, the U.S. attempted to overthrow him. Fedel wanted to over throw the government because he was mad at them fpr thoughing him in jail for 14 years or so. He fought back and after the US found out what problem they gotten themselves into which causes them to fight againest him. -
U2 Incident
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident was a plane that the United States launched. A new weapon for war as they thought. -
Kennedy Presidency
Kennedy Presidency
John F. Kennedy was the youngest presient ever to become a part of the office. Him and his wife were the know as the eye candies of the 60's. John F. K ennedy change many ways of wars. He thought of peace treatys and many more ideas that came alone with him. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs
The bay of pigs was an attempt in 1961 by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States to overthrow the communist government of Cuba, using mainly ex-Cuban refugees -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The purpose of the Berlin wall was to permanently close off access to the West. The North side of Berlin thought that the West side of Berlin wasn't beinging to helpful and cut them off for the disagreements. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution apporving andsupporting President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to repel any armed attack against U.S. forces in Southeast Asia. -
Vietnam War - American involvement
Vietnam War - American involvement
South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival of U.S. support troops and the formation of the U.S. Military Assistance Command. Mounting dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness and corruption of Diem's government culminated in a military coup engineered by Duong Van Minh; Diem was executed. -
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Nixon Presidency
Nixon Presidency
Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was when man first stepped on the moon. U.S. had sent 3 men up into spaces to place a flag on the moon also to discover and see how far man can achive. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The 1970 NPT is the only international treaty that prohibits the proliferation of nuclear weapons and in which the five nuclear-weapon States the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits China
Richard Nixon is hardly a role model, overall; he was a devious president who encouraged illegal actions by his subordinates. But he was a clever strategist — never more so than in the opening to China that culminated in his February 1972 visit to Beijing. -
Détente
Détente
Between the late 1960s and the late 1970s, there was a thawing of the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. This détente took several forms, including increased discussion on arms control. Although the decade began with vast improvements in bilateral relations, by the end of the decade events had brought the two superpowers back to the brink of confrontation. -
SALT II
SALT II
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreements. At the time, these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever. -
Paris Peace Accords
Paris Peace Accords
The road to the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, or the agreement that ended the American presence in the Vietnam War, on January 27, 1973, between the United States and North Vietnam, was long and tenuous. When President Richard Nixon entered office in 1969, his goal was to end the war honorably -
Chilean coup d’état
Chilean coup d’état
Forty years ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende. -
Fall of Saigon
Fall of Saigon
After many years of brutal fighting in Vietnam and the continued lack of public support in the U.S. along with a multitude of other domestic issues, President Richard Nixon was ready to negotiate peace in Vietnam in March of 1972. North Vietnam, however, saw no need to settle the war diplomatically and responded to the U.S. request for negotiations with the famous Easter Offensive. -
Iranian Revolution
<a href='http://http://www.iranchamber.com/history/islamic_revolution/islamic_revolution.php' >Iranian Revolution </a
Islamic Revolution, Persian Enqelāb-e Eslāmī, popular uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy on April 1, 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square is located in the center of Beijing, the capital of China.Tiananmen means "gate of heavenly peace."Estimates of the death toll range from several hundred to thousands.It has been estimated that as many as 10,000 people were arrested during and after the protests.Several dozen people have been executed for their parts in the demonstrations. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall
a new travel law, the leader of East Berlin's communist party (SED), Gьnter Schabowski, said on November 9, 1989 at about 7 p.m. in somewhat unclear words that the border would be opened for “private trips abroad”. -
Gulf War
Gulf War
In response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the U.S. and other countries launched a military operation known as Operation Desert Storm. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
representatives from 11 Soviet republics, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. -
JFK Assassination
JFK Assassination
JFK was John F. Kenndey,he was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. Everyone was shocked to know that he was assassinated but hours after Lyndon Baines Johnson took place for no choas was formed.
