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Yalta Conference
sourcethe yalta conference intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin had the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The Soviets agreed to join in the war against Japan 90 days after Hitler’s Germany was defeated. -
Berlin Declaration
[source](erationroute.com/germany/historical-location/berlin-declaration)The Berlin Declaration happened so the Allies of World War II could assume "supreme authority" over German territory. This happened right after Hitler's death. -
Potsdam Conference
sourcethe Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.) Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. They gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany. -
North Vietnam
sourceAt the war's end in August 1945, a power vacuum was created in Vietnam.The Japanese occupied Vietnam during World War II but allowed the French to remain and exert some influence. On September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam's independence -
Iron Curtain Speech
sourceChurchill, who had been defeated for re-election as prime minister in 1945, was invited to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he gave this speech. the primary purpose of his talk was to argue for an even closer “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain -
Containment Policy
source It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. -
Marshall Plan
sourceThe Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, -
Berlin Blockade
sourceThe Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Berlin Airlift
sourceAs World War II came to an end in 1945, the Allied powers held peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam to determine how they would divide up Germany’s territories. The agreements split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation -
NATO
sourceThe NATO was an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. members of US Canada and ten other countries pledged to help one another if any of them were attacked. -
Soviet Union tests A-Bomb
sourceThe bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had prompted Joseph Stalin to order the development of nuclear weapons within five years. On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1'. -
Second Red Scare
The second Red Scare occurred after World War II and was popularly known as "McCarthyism". McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe. -
Korean War - American involvement
sourceOn June 24, 1950, the North Koreans invaded South Korea. A few days later, Truman ordered U.S. troops to the aid of South Korea and convinced the United Nations (UN) to send military aid as well -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
sourceJulius Rosenberg and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. they were both convicted on March 29, 1951, and on April 5 were sentenced to death -
Eisenhower Presidency
sourcethe presidency of General Dwight David Eisenhower, from 1953 to 1961, was a period of peace and prosperity, even as the world was dominated by the Cold War. He signed the Civil Rights acts of 1957 and 1960, created NASA, and made the space race against Russia a high priority. -
Nikita Khrushchev
sourceThe Soviet government announces that Nikita Khrushchev has been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev’s selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
sourceThe Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Europe during the Cold War. It included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force -
Suez Crisis
sourceIt was a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956. The attack followed Egypt's decision of 26 July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam -
Sputnik
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Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. his surprise 1957 success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. -
Cuban Revolution
sourcesourceThe Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and its allies against the US-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.The revolution began in July 1953 and continued until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 1 January 1959, replacing his government -
U2 incident
sourceThe 1960 U-2 incident happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. Initially the United States government tried to cover up the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its military nature when the Soviet government came forward with the U-2's intact remains and captured pilot as well as photos of military bases in Russia taken by the aircraf -
Vietnam War - American involvement
America joined the war to hold the line against the spread of world Communism. America paid for the war the French fought against Communist Vietnam as a part of the Truman Doctrine and then by the 1950’s became involved when the war flared up again. -
Kennedy Presidency
sourceJohn F Kennedy's presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. During the campaign, Kennedy charged that under Eisenhower and the Republicans the nation had fallen behind the Soviet Union in the Cold War, both militarily and economically, and that as president he would get America moving again. -
First Man in Space
On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft -
Bay of Pigs
the Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba.The failure at the Bay of Pigs cost the United States dearly. Castro used the attack to solidify his power in Cuba and he requested additional Soviet military aid. -
Berlin Wall
source wall separating the East(Communist) half of Berlin, and the West(Democratic) side of Berlin. The wall was erected to keep people from escaping the crap living conditions in the East, to the freedom of the west. The Wall became THE major symbol of the Cold War. -
JFK Assassination
No one really knows the reason for his death. However there are several theories that explain. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
sourceOn August 2 a raid on the North Vietnamese coast by South Vietnamese gunboats. On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. -
SALT 1
sourceThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. -
Prague Spring
sourceThe Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. -
Tet Offensive
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Nixon Presidency
sourceRichard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States . During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation. -
Apollo 11
sourceApollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18. -
Nixon goes to China
President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an official trip. He was the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949. This was an important event because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. -
SALT II
source SALT II was a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. It was a continuation of the SALT I talks and was led by representatives from both countries. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. -
Paris Peace Accords
sourceThe Paris Peace Accords of 1973 had the goal to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War. It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
yom kippur war
source War fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. Most of the war took place on Arab territory, in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Egypt's stated goal for the war was the destruction of the State of Israel. -
Fall of Saigon
sourceThe Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a socialist republic, governed by the Communist Party of Vietnam. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
source It was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. About 40 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Iranian students, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. -
Reagan Presidency
<a
href='https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/ronaldreagan' >sourcee=</a>Reagans' presidency was termed the "Reagan Revolution". The Reagan administration took a directly anti-communist stance towards the Soviet Union, actively seeking a collapse of the USSR as well as an end to the Cold War. -
Reykjavik Summit
sourceThe Reykjavik Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, held in Hofoi in Reykjavik, the capital city of Iceland. -
Tear Down this Wall Speech
source"Tear down this wall!" was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
source Before the massacre there were a lot of prostests or student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing exposing deep splits within China' political leadership. Then on June 4th troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
source On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day the citizens were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall at 00:00 -
Gulf War
sourceIt was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.The war was marked by the introduction of live news broadcasts from the front lines of the battle. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
<ahref='http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp' >source</a>The Soviet Union had been going through rough times for years. Due to their Communist system and little trade with the outside world for years, there was little or no money coming into the country. Gorbachev's was failling to rule his empire, so it all came to an end.
