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Yalta Conference
The Big Three Churchill (Great Britain), President Roosevet (USA), & Stalin (Soviet) at the end of World War II agreed that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to end World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) & the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe) that would be -
Truman Doctrine
Was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S President Harry Truman. Historians often consider it was the start of the Cold war and containmant policy to start expansion. -
Marshall Plan
The American program to aid Europe, which the U.S gave economic support to help rebuild European econmies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of the Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. -
NATO Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernment military alliance based on the North Atlanic Treaty. -
Korean War
was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), -
Warsaw Pact
was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of central and eastern europe in existenc during the Cold war. -
Vietnam War
was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the People's Republic of China and other communist allies— -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
The end of Cold War
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold Wa
