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Yalta Conference
Roosevelt’s last meeting with Stalin and Churchill took place at Yalta, in Crimea, February 4–11, 1945. The conference is remembered for its treatment of the Polish problem -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, held near Berlin, was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. It was attended by Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain -
United Nations are formed
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on October 24, 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict -
Containment Policy/ Iron curtain
It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
The Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The Berlin Airlift
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' -
NATO ( North Alliance Treaty Organization)
an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949
