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Yalta Conference
It was sometimes called the Crimea Conference. It was code named the Argonaut Conference. It was a WW2 meeting for the heads of each major state that had played a part in. It basically covered how a post war Europe would look and how to shape that. it was in relation to the Potsdam Conference also -
A-Bomb tested (Trinity)
The United States tested the very 1st atomic bomb here in trinity, on 5:29 of july 16th, 1945. the bomb as in an area about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test -
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Postdam Conference
The participants of this were the United States, the USSR, and the United Kingdom. Stalin, Churchill, and Truman were the ones attending this conference as they discussed how to divide Nazi Germany into its respectable areas -
A-Bomb's dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima Both bombs)
the dates are agust 6th and 9th. i just wanted to note that here. the a-bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. it was a last effort to put japan into a surrender and for a US victory in the pacific. The bombs also killed at least 129,000 people in japan, putting it on a high for civilian casualties. -
United Nations - 1945
The United Nations was established on October 24'h of 1945 and it helped to eliminate the former failed project of the Leauge Of Nations. The main job of the UN was to help establish world peace between all countries. to this date, it has mainly worked. -
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Chinese Communist Revolution
this was the eventual communist takeover of china through its civil war. the Nationalists of china had much more power over china at the time so it was much easier to take over china. with 2.68 million militias on the communist side and 4.3 million on the nationilast side, there was war at hand. (Some of nationalist troops are poorly trained and equipped). eventially the nationalist party was on the brink of defeat in 1948 and eventually lost to the communist side -
Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
This was a speech from Winston Churchill given from the center of the US, Westminster College. The speech is formally known as the "Sinews of Peace" speech and had addressed the problems that many people faced over in europe -
Truman Doctrine
This was a tie when President Truman presented an address in front of a joint congress, where he asked for $400 million in aid for the people of Greece and Turkey, for reconstructing after the war. -
The Korean War
By 1948, as a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea was split into two regions, with separate governments. This basically ignited the War between South Korea and North Korea -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, or known also as the European Recovery Program, was an american effort to help war devastated Europeo get back on it's feet, in simple terms. it gave $12 billion worth of aid to countries that needed it most over in Europe (worth over $120 billion in today's currency) -
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the very 1st international chrisises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was a trade deal and governmental military alliance between most of the countries in the northern atlantic. one of the documents in the article stated that other countries in the deal had to come to aid when another country needed it, as in if one country got into a war they would have to help them out -
Hydrogen Bomb (Ive Mike)
This was the very 1st full scale thermonuclear device ever detonated. it was detonated on the island of Elugelab in the pacific ocean, as a part of project ivy. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, SEATO, as an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact. -
Warsaw Pact
the Warsaw Pact was a pact between thee Soviet Union and 7 other sattalite nations in the USSR -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite ever launched from earth. it was from the Russians. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was mainly a wall that divided East Germany from West Germany during times of the cold war. it was mainly the frontlines of the cold war also
