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HUAC Formed
Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States. -
Yalta Conference
1945 statagey meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Feb 4-11 1945 -
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United Nations Formation
Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. -
Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements. -
Warsaw Act
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after WWII. -
Berlin Airlift
Program in which U.S. and British pilot flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet Blockade. -
NATO Formation
Military alliance formed to counter soviet expansion. -
Era of McCarthyism begins
February 9. McCarthy delivers speech in Wheeling, West Virginia and displays a list of 205 Communists in the State Department apparently harbored by Communist sympathizers in high places. -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
North Korea, with the backing of the Soviet Union, attacked South Korea. -
Roseburg execution
Accused of passing on Atomic secrets -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
The initial mobile campaign transitioned to trench warfare, lasting from January 1951 until the 1953 border stalemate and armistice. -
Warsaw Pact
Military Alliance of the Soviet Union and its Sattelite states. -
Sputnik 1 launched
The Soviet Union threw down the gauntlet when on October 4, 1957, Sputnik I was launched into space as the first orbiting satellite. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. -
First American in Space
On May 5, a former Navy test-pilot named Alan Shepard -- judged by many to be the best pilot among the Original Seven astronauts -- became the first American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
August 13, the date in 1961 when construction of the Berlin Wall began. -
First Man on the M oon
American Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. -
The Cold War Ends
