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Formation of the United Nations
Representatives of 26 nationss at war met with the axis powers in Washington to sign the declaration of the united nations pledging to use all resources against the axis and agreeing not to make a seperate peace. -
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Cold war
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Potsdam Conference
The conference was held in Berlin July 17- August 2, 1945. Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain attended the conference. They discussed plans with an ongoing conflict with Japan and issues relating to postwar Europe. After the conference ended the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan on August 9, 1945. -
National Security Act
The National security act made a huge reorganization of the foreign policy and military for the U.S by doing this the prsident found useful. -
Truman Doctrine
The United States had an idea called "containment". The idea was to stop the spread of communism. It started in Greece and Turkey and continued into/during the Berlin Airlift. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was basically to help rebuild Europe. They wanted to build a strongerfoundation for allied countries of Europe. -
Creation of Israel
After Israel was recognized by the United Nations, it become an independent state.With Israel's good army, Israel was able to survive when Egypt, Lebanon, and Iraq attcked. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States and the United Kingdom start airlifting food and fuel from airbases in western Germany, when Soviet seals off rail,road, and water access to Allied-Controlled areas in Berlin. This crisis ended May 12, 1949 when Soviet lifts the blockade and allows land access. -
Formation of NATO
The berlin blockade forced negotiations between Western Europe,Canada and the United States which led to NATO. -
Stalin Dies
A soviet union leader who was responsible for the death of millions of people through famine and purges. Some people did weep for him. He had led them to victory in WWII. -
Suez Crisis
When the president of Egypt ordered the Suez Canal siezed and nationalized the British got angry and joined with Israel and the french to attack Egypt. If all three nations persisted with their attack, the United States threatened with economic sanctions. The Suez crisis then ended in March 1957. -
Sputnik I and Sputnik II
Sputnik I was launched it was the first artifical satelite it led to new political, military, technology, and scientific developements then Sputnik 2 was launched carrying beavier payload with a dog named Laika. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
When American troops landed, they were suprised to see many military Cubans ready to fight for their country. The Americans didn't expect the cubans to follow Castro's plan onthe attack. The Cubans then pushed the Americans to the landin site. The main reason for the fight was so that communisim wouldn't reach the U.S. Out of 1500 troops, 100 of them were killed and many were captured. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built to keep wetern autocrats from entering east Germany. In November ( 1989 communist part allowed GDR people to cross whenever they wanted to. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union was secretly building a nuclear missile in Cuba. Khrushchev announced that he would take apart the missile and return it to the Soviet Union, trusting that the United States wouldn't attack Cuba. -
Kennedy Is Assassinatted
35th President of the United States also the youngest John F. Kennedy's prime concern was the income tax cuts and a civil rights bill. Assassinated by Lee Henry Oswald. -
USS Pueblo Incident
The USS Pueblo Incident happened about 35 years ago. The North Korean spotted the Pueblo ship and attacked, The captain on the USS Pueblo ship surrendered. Of 83 American sailors, only one died. The 82 left were imprisoned, humiliated and tortured by the North Korean captors. The event ended December 23, 1968 -
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treat
The Treaty of Nuclear Non-Proliferation obligates that the U.S Russian federation the United Kingdom, France, and China not to transfer nucleus weapons, other devices or technology to any non nuclear state. -
Salt 1 and Salt 2 Agreements
Strategic Arms Limitation Talk 1 was when the united states and the soviet union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments, Strategic Arms Limitation Treatty 2 increased limits on intercontinental balistic missiles. -
UN Resolution 2758
The restortion of the lawful right of the people's republic of China in the united nations. Done by a two thirds vote reffering to article 18. -
Nixon visits China
Prsident Richard Nixons visits the Republic of China, it was to discuss bringing things back to normal between the United States and the People's Republic of China. -
Paris Peace Accords
An agreement between the goverment of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the united states bring ende to the Vietnam war. -
South Vietnam Falls
North Vietnam and Viet Cong capture and force Vietnamese capitol of Saigan and south Vietnam to surrender and end the Vietnam war. -
Vietnam War (U.S involved)
South Vietnam signed a military and economic treaty with the United States. Ascending dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness and corruption of Diems governemt culminated in a military coup by Duong Van Minh. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4th, 500 Iranian students gathered around the U.S. embassy in Tehran to protest. Out of 90 people there, 66 were captured and held captive for 444 days. On January 21, 1981 the hostages were set free. -
USSR Invades Afghanistan
The Soviet intervened in support of the Afghan communist government, in its conflicts with anticommunist muslims. -
U.S and Soviet Boycotts of the Olympics
The 1980 summer olympic boycott of the mascot olympic was apart of a package of action intiated by the united states to protest the Soviet invasion in Afgahanastan. -
Korean Airline Flight
The airline was heading to its last landing plce when it went off course and headed to Kamchatka Peninsula. After the Soviet didn't get any response from the plane they fired missiles and killed 269 people on board. -
U.S. Invades Grenada
Bishop was put to be the prime minister causing problems when the break down in civil ordered to threaten the lives of medical students who were living on the island. -
Iran Contra Affair
A secret arrangement to provide Nicaraguan contra rebels from profit gained from selling arm to Iran. The first was to aid the contras who war conducting war again the government of Nicaragua. The second was to release american hostages held by iranian groups. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The result of a flawed reator design ended in asteam explosion. The explosion killed two people that day. Within a few weeks 28 more people died. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square Massacre, also called the "June four incident." The Chinese troops went attacking the center of Beijing killing and arresting several of pro-democracy protestors. They protested for the acceptance of Chinese communist party and a greater democracy.
