Cold war

Cold war- HWS- Period 3

  • Potsdam Conference

        Potsdam Conference
    On July 17 to August 2, 1945 U.S President Harry truman and soviet discuss a settlement for europe. The settlement was a administration of defeated germany and the continuing military campaign against japan. This caused was to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. After the Yalta Conference of February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet following the surrender of Germany to determine the postwar borders in Europe.
  • Korean War

     Korean War
    North Korea fought South Korea from june 1950 to July 1950 who also had the United states and china involved in it. It happened because when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea’s aid. It started because North Korea Invaded South Korea. After the war More than 4 million Koreans Died peninsula and 2.3 millio
  • Cuban Revolution

     Cuban Revolution
    On July 26th 1953 to january 1,1953 was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian. It began when Fidel Castro led a force of rebels against the government of Fulgencio Batista. The effect of the cuban revolution Soviet and American leaders found a way out of the impasse. During the crisis, the Americans and Soviets had exchanged letters and other communications on October 26,
  • NATO/ Warsaw pact

     NATO/ Warsaw pact
    On May 14, 1955 the warsaw treaty was a political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. It occurred because the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The effect was that the Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact.
  • Suez Crisis

       Suez Crisis
    On october 29,1956 to july 26,1956 The catalyst for the joint Israeli-British-French attack on Egypt was the nationalization of the Suez Cana. it happened israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. After the war In 1954, he brokered a seven-year treaty removing Britain's military presence from the Canal Zone.
  • Space Race/ Sputnik

    Space Race/ Sputnik
    On october 4,1957 was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States , for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It was cause because The Soviet Union has just launched the world's first satellite, Fearful of Soviet military control of space. The after effect of the Space race was that Money was poured into the space program with America spending 25 billion dollars in the late 1960s on their space program.
  • Vietnam War

     Vietnam War
    On November 1 to April,30 ,1975 The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial War , fought initially against forces from France and then the U.S., and later against South Vietnam. It started because north and south vietnam divided into communist but their government only wanted one. At the end of the war 2 million vietnamese people died and only 1.1 million of south vietnamese people died.