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The Yalta Conference
The 3 allied powers leaders came together to discuss Europe's postwar reorganization and the main purpose was the reestablishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany -
End of ww2
US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki then Axis powers then the war ended with a unconditional surrender but the war was not officially over until japan signed the instrument of surrender. -
Creation of United Nations
After WW2 the United Nations was created and The purpose of the United Nations was to maintain international peace and security -
The long telegraph
George Kennan expressed his opinion that the Soviet Union had a major economic and political weaknesses and proposed a policy of containment communism -
Iron Curtain
A political and military boundary that isolated soviet-controlled countries of eastern Europe after WW2 -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine was created by president Truman and the purpose of it was that the US would go to whatever length to contain the spread of communism and to stop US former ally the Soviet Union -
Marshall Plan
Marshall plan was an initiative to aid Western Europe in which the US gave over $13,000,000,000 in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of WW2 -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Was one of the first international crisis of the cold war during the multinational occupation of post WW2 Germany, the soviet union blocked the Western allies railway,road,and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control -
The creation of NATO
NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of the North American and Europe and the main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their Nation -
The Red Scare
Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communists in the US -
McCarthyism
The tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges -
The Rosenburgs
American couple that was charges and executed for spying for the Soviet Union -
Duck and cover
Was drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack -
The Korean war
War between north and south Korea war started because North Korea communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the non communist South Korea -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact was a formal Treaty Of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance and a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union,Albania,Bulgaria,Czechoslovakia,East Germany,Hungary,Poland,Romania,. -
The Suez Canal
The Egyptian president Gamal Nasser seized the Suez Cana from its French and British owners sparking an invasion by those Western Nations and their ally, Israel -
Eisenhower Doctrine
When a country could request economic assistance and/or aid from the U.S military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state -
U-2 incident
The U-2 was the type of American spy plane shot down by the soviets -
President in office
The main presidents in office were Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ho Chi Minh, John F Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev,
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