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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting between the three most powerful leaders of the world at that time. Winston Churchill from Great Britain, Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union, and FDR from the U.S. The goal of this meeting was to discuss Europe's regrouping after WW2. -
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman began his presidential term -
Division of Germany
After the Potsdam Conference, Germany submitted to uncondtional surrender. The country was split into four quadrants, Fance in the Southwest, Britain in the Northwest, U.S. in the South, and Soviet Union in the East. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference was between the Big 3, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman. This meeting was to negotiate terms after WW2. (peace treaties and what not) -
"Long Telegram"
George Kennan, a U.S. ambassador in the Soviet Union sent a telegram from Moscow to Washington that the U.S. needs to prevent the spreading of Communism. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister, made a speech that empasized on the split between Eastern and Western Europe. This declred tension between the Soviet Union and other countries. -
Phillippines
The Philiippines gained independence from the U.S. -
Iran Crisis
The nation of Iran, was invaded by the Soviet Union and the British but the U.S. was neutral with the country and so the U.S. convinced their allies to retreat from Iran. -
Indochina
The French land in Indochina and begins the First Indochina War. They are resisted by the Viet Minh communists who want national independence -
Marshall Plan
In an effort to strengthen ties with European Countries, the U.S. donated 13 billion dolllars to countries in need like Greece and Turkey where the war has devastated and ruined the land. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and propsed that they would stop if the Allies took out the Deuscthe mark from west berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city's population -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy declared from president Truman that said that the U.S. would would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
NATO
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to create an alliance between 28 countries including, France, Britain, Hungary, Denmark, Netherlands, etc. -
Communist China
Mao Zedung, a political Leader of china at the time declared the " People's republic of China" and there is a speculation that the Cold War influenced this revolution of the Chinese Communist party. -
McCarthyism
Senator McCarthy accused hundreds of celebrities and politicians of espionage with the Soviet Union out of insecurity. The wrongly accused citizens had to endure long trials and harsh punishments for their alleged crimes -
NSC-68
the NSC-68 was a secret foreign policy presented to Harry S. Truman that provided a blueprint to the militarization to prevent Communsim from spreading. -
Korean War
A civil war between North Korea, (who was aided by China) and South Korea (who was aided by the U.N.) North Korea was fighting for Communism, while the South was fighting for the opposite. The U,S also aided the Southern region of Korea. -
Korea
Harry S. Truman fires McArthur from the troops in Korea. -
MAD
MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union while they engaged in smaller wars around the world. -
Eisenhower
President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inagurated into office as president of the U.S. -
NATO
Greece and Turkey join NATO -
Hydrogen Bomb
The U.S. created and tested the World's first hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union saw this and became intimitated which led them to create their own. -
Marshall {;an
The Marshall plan ends -
Bomb
The United States tests their first thermonuclear bomb -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin dies -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin dies -
Korean War
An armistice agreement ends fighting in the Korean War. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev is inducted to be the supreme leader of the Sovet union -
Submarine
The U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus. -
West Germany
Allies end military occupation of West Germany. -
NATO
West Germany joins NATO and begins rearmament. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It was just a counter to the Allies' NATO -
Suez Canal
Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal. -
Suez Crisis
France, Israel, and the United Kingdom attack Egypt with the goal of removing Nasser from power. International diplomatic pressures force the attackers to withdraw. -
ICBM
The Strategic Air Command initiates 24/7 nuclear alert (continuous until termination in 1991) in anticipation of a Soviet ICBM surprise attack capability. -
2nd Berlin Crisis
Nikita Khrushcev asks the West to leave Berlin -
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba but doesn't officially say that the Country is Communist Just yet. Mini guerrillas are also formed in Latin America -
Havana
President Eisenhower closes the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba to shut down all relations with the communist nation -
JFK
JFK is inaugurated into the President of the United States. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a falied mission from the CIA to Cuba which had the intention of shutting down Castro and his Communist style of government. -
Moon Landing
President JFK, declares that he will put the first man on the moon. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall is built by the Soviets following the breakdown in talks to decide the future of Germany. -
USSR Nuclear
The Soviet Union resumed testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
After the U.S. placed missiles in Italy, the Soviet Union learned news of this and retaliated by placing missiles in Cuba, (their ally) -
JFK speech
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin. -
Partial Test Ban Treaty
The Partial Test Ban Treaty is signed by the US, UK and USSR, prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere except underground. -
JFK death
John F. Kennedy is shot and killed in Dallas, and Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated to the Presidency -
NY meeting
US President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons. -
Vietnam War
US President Lyndon B. Johnson claims that North Vietnamese naval vessels had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although there was a first attack, it was later proven that American vessels had entered North Vietnamese territory, and the second attack is proved unfounded. -
Breznhev
Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev to become General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Vietnam War 2
US military buildup to defend South Vietnam. North Vietnam has also committed its forces in the war. US begins sustained bombing of North Vietnam -
Prague Spring
A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. -
Brezhnev Doctrine
Lenoid Brezhnev declared that, "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries." -
Nixon
Nixon becomes president of the U.S. -
Nixon Doctrine
Nixon stated that "the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends," but would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world." in a speech in Guam -
Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev dies -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits China, the first visit by a U.S. President since the establishment of the People's Republic of China -
SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement signals the beginning of détente between the U.S. and USSR. -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford becomes President of the United States upon the resignation of Nixon. -
Ostpolitik
was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic -
Helsinki Accords
Was the final act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Finlandia Hall of Helsinki, Finland, -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter becomes president -
SALT II
U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, sign the SALT II agreement, outlining limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons. -
Nicaraguan Revolution
the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to violently oust the dictatorship in 1978-79