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Potsdam conference
the potsdam conference was held at cecilienhof, the home of crown prince wilhelm hohenzollern, in potsdam, occuiped germany, from 17 july to 2 august 1954. -
Marshall Plan
Erope was devastated by years of conflict during World War II. Millions of people had been killed or wounded. industrial and residential centers in Englad, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and else where lay in ruins. -
truman doctrine
was an internmatinal relations policy set forth by the U.S. president harry turman in a speech onMarch 12, 1947 which sated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey -
Israel
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, in favor of a Partition Plan that created the State of Israel. The British reliquished their mandate over Palestine in 1948. War broke out between the Arabs and Jews soon after. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, established the state of Israel as an independent state, with the rest of the British Mandate of Palestine split into areas controlled by Egypt and Transjordan. -
Berlin Air Lift
was one of the first major internatinal crises of the cold war. During the multinational occupation of post- world was II Germany, the soviet union blocked tge western allies railway, road and canal access to the acces to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.. -
Suez Crisis
the suez crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggresstion Suez Canal crisis, Suez Was, or Second Arab- Israeli war.. was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the unted states, the soviet union, and the unites nations playing major rolse in forcing britain, france and israel to withdraw. -
sputnik I & Sputnik II
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S. -
NASA Is Formed
Nasa has become the worlds premier agent for exploration, carrying on in "the new ocean" of outer space a long traditon of expanding the physical and mental boundaries of humanity. Fifty years ago, however the agency that pushed the frontiers of aeronautics, took us the moon, flew the space shuttle, built the international space sation and revealed the secerts of the cosmos, was in its birth throes, and fundamental decisions were being made that profoundly shaped all that was to come. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
bay of pigs invasion, known in latin america as incastion de bahiade cochions, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA- sponsored parmilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter- revlutionary military, trained and funded by the united states governments central intelligence agency (CIA), -
Dissolving of the soviet union
25 December 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That same evening at 7:32 P.M. the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the Russian tricolor. Two weeks later, 8 of the remaining 9 republics signed the Alma-Ata Protocol -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The cuban missile crisis- known as the October Crisis, the missile scare in Cuba and the Caribbean Crisis in the former USSAR- was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. the crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the cold war came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
USS Pueblo Incident
USS is an ELINT and SIGINT banner class technical reserach ship. (Navy Intelligence) which was boarded and captured by North Korean frces on Jan. 23 1968, in what us known as the Pueblo affair. The declassified SIGAD for the National Security Agency. -
Un Resolution 2758
October 25, 1971, recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations" and expelled "the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations. This move effectively ended the Republic of China's full membership at the United Nations and remains a point of contention on the political status of Taiwan -
Nixon Visits China
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States (U.S.) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
Vietnam War
if one state went Communist, other states in the region would follow, and U.S. policy thus held that accommodation to the spread of Communist rule across all of Vietnam was unacceptable. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, as France was backed by -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis, referred to in Persian as... was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1982), after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim student followers of the Imam's Line. -
Iran Contra Affair
administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[3] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of several hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. -
Afghanistan
the soviet war in afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to Feb. 1989. part of the cold war, it was fought between Soviet- led afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the mujahideen, mostly composed of two akkiances- the peshawar seven and the Tehran eight. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
commonly known as the June Forth incident or more accurately "89" Democracy movement in chinese. -
Tron Curtain
Cold War in 1991. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances: -
South Vietnam Falls
the fall of saigon was the captue of saigon, the capital of south vietnam, by the peoples army of vietnam and the national liberation front of south vietnam on april 30, 1975 the event marked the end of the vietnam war and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of vietnam into a socialist republic governed by the communist party. -
Korean war
supported by china and the soviet union. it was primarily the result of the polotical division of korea by an agreemet of the victorious. -
warsaw pact formed
Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO)[1] was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiativ3 -
Berlin Wall Constructed
Berlin wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off west berlin from surrounding east germany and from east berlin.
