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The Yalta conference
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill all met up on the black sea to plan the postwar World. -
The read scare
The fear of communist where taking over the U.S. They trusted no one. People feared their neighbors because anyone could be a communist and they viewed communist as spies. -
The United Nations Creation.
In Washington, D.C. delegates from 39 countries met to discuss the new organization and 50 countries came to San Francisco to officially organize the United Nations. -
world war 2
World war 2 ends with the allies victory. The Allies defeated Germany and then Japan. -
The long telegram
diplomat George Kennan had a response message that was thousands of words long of why the Soviet Union was acting like they were. -
Iron curtain
This was when the allies had a "military barrier" or iron curtain separating Eastern Europe from the West -
Marshall Plan
It was a European Recovery Program that gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economy. -
Truman Doctrine
Announced to congress by President Truman a policy who's purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War was made. -
Berlin Blockade/ airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the allies railways, roads and canals to the west side of Berlin. So Britain and the U.S started dropping supplies from planes to the city. -
Creations of NATO
Included twelve countries: Canada, United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway,Luxembourg, and Iceland. -
McCarthyism
Was making accusations without proof that someone was a communist and/or a spy -
The Korean War
North Korean troops invaded south Korea. President Truman ordered troops from Japan to Korea. They where successful in pushing them back over the boarder but they pushed them to far because China didn't like them coming into their territory so China joined in and pushed South Korea back -
Duck and cover
This was a safety practice for kids and grown ups so they know what to do if the Soviet Union decided to bomb the U.S. with nuclear weapons. -
The Rosenbergs
The Rosenberg's where a couple that where executed and accused of being communist spies that where giving the Soviet union Information on our Atomic bombs -
The Warsaw pact
The soviet union's response to the NATO allowing west Germany to rearm and join it's organization was to organize a military alliance in East Europe. -
The Suez canal
Also known as the Suez crisis. Eisenhower wanted to prevent the Arabs from siding with the soviet union. So we offered to help finance the construction of the damn on the Nile river. But Egypt had bought weapons from communist so we went back on our offer. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A middle Eastern country could request American aid for U.S military forces if being threatened -
U-2 Incident
A spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace and the U.S. tried to play it off as a weather plane. Soviet Union got mad at their lies.
