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HUAC
n 1934, the House established the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, supposedly to investigate Americans of German origin and to keep an eye on subversive behavior in the United States. The U.S. wanted to make sure that there was no influence of communism and to make sure no one was a spy. -
UN Created
It was composed of most the allies and put themselves as "peace loving" nations. They were going to try to prevent agressions and help the other nations if they are in trouble of becoming communists. The other nation would help them protect them. -
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Communist Take Overs
The Soviet Union wants to spread communism and wanted to ruin Germanty so that they can prevent another Nazi invasion from happening. So the Soviet Union took over Czechoslovakia and then it spread to Berlin. -
Yalta Confrence
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Postdam Confrence
The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany. Germany was then decided to officially be partitioned into four zones. -
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Leaders
The leader of the USSR was Stalin, in the U.S. the leaders was Truman, Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan. The leaders changed because Kennedy was assasinated and the other presidents resigned or weren't elected again. Castro was the dictator of Cuba until he died and Mikhail Gorbachev took over. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry S Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism -
Berlin Airlift
During the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union Germany was still divided into the East and West as a result of the victory by the Allies over Germany. Berlin, the capital of united Germany , was entirely inside East German territory. Berlin was also divided into East and West per treaty arranged by the allies. Their were 4 sectors, The French, The British, The American and the Russian(Soviet). While relations between the communist eastern part and the allies diminished distrust and anim -
NATO
* On April 4, 1949, the foreign ministers of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Luxembourg, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway and the U.S. formally signed the North Atlantic Treaty with the key note stating "an armed attack against one or more of the European signatories or the North American signatories, would be considered an attack against all of them." -
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Space Race
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Korean War
North Korea invades South Korea with the help of Stalin and the United States helpes fight off the North Korean army. -
Nuclear Arms Race
During the Cold War both the Russia and the U.S. believed that the more nuclear weapons that you have, the more powerful that you were. The both competed to have the most weapons but had never used them. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was a military alliance in retaliation of the treaty of NATO and would help one another from foreign aggression. -
NASA
Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations. During this period, space exploration emerged as a major area of contest and became known as the space race. -
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Veitnam War
North Korea invades South Korea with the help of Stalin and the United States helpes fight off the North Korean army. -
U2 Crisis
The Soviet Union and the United States grew increasingly worried about what the other was planning or doing. The USSR didn't agree with the U.S. about the "Open Skies" proposal in 1955 and more tension was being caused. The U-2 plane was sent by U.S. was shot down near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union. This event caused deep distrust of the U.S.. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by the U.S. to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was the physical divider of West Berlin and Germany. It was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War.The wall was to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West. The wall was demolished near the end of the Cold War. -
Red Scare, Joseph McCarthy, and Hollywood 10
The Red Scare was based on people's fear of the spread of communism during the Vietnam War. Joseph McCarthy was at first respected but them people started to realized he was overaggravating and using false facts. The Hollywood 10 was 10 actors and movie directors accused of believing in communism, and they denied the accusations and spent some time in jail. -
Escalation
The war took on a new dimension when on February 7, 1965, United States airplanes began bombing North Vietnamese military targets in retaliation for a terrorist guerrilla raid against the American Camp Holloway air base at Pleiku. On February 18, airplanes manned solely by United States personnel began making direct attacks on the Vietcong in South Vietnam. Previously, South Vietnamese had participated in such missions. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
First Man on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr, on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:17:39 UTC. The United States mission is considered the major accomplishment in the history of space exploration. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre—occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion.
