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Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet to discuss terms of German surrender and the boundaries and governments in post war Eastern Europe. -
Hiroshima
The United States, dropped the first atomic bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and in Nagasaki two days later the United Stats dropped the second atomic bomb, during the final stages of World War II. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman gave a speech, promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover. -
Marshall Plan
Named after U.S. secretary of state George Marshall, it provided $13 billion for rebuilding Europe. The plan helped Western Europe make a rapid recovery from the war, and it also helped preserve political stability. -
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948 when they cut off all land, rail, and water routes to West Berlin, that meant they cut off all their food, and supplies. So they organized the Berlin Airlift and brought in their food and supply's. -
NATO
In the aftermath of the airlift, The United States, Canada, and most of Western European countries joined together in a military alliance. The alliance, called The North Atlantic Treaty aka NATO, was designed to counter Soviet power in Europe. -
Korean War
The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet. -
Hungarian Revolution
It was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II and broke into Central and Eastern Europe. -
Space Race
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
