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Iron Curtain
the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
The Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
End if WW2
The Allies and the Axis finished the war and the Allies were victories of the war and this was the beginning of the the cold war -
The Creation of The United Nations
after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. -
The Long Telegram
8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment. -
The Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman said that the United States are willing to do any thing in order to contain the spread of communism and stop the United States' former ally, the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
the Marshall Plan is when the united states gave 13 billion dollar to help rebuild the the western economies and literally help them build there and get there country back up -
The Creation Of NATO
United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
McCarthyism
it was when McCarthy started to blame random people for being communist with no evidence and he just ruined people life and career -
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The Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. But at the end we ended up where we started and policy change -
Duck and Cover
it was something so it can help you from atomic bomb from the soviet union but it really doesn't work -
The Rosenberg's
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
Presidents in Office
Truman was in office for 8 years and the same for Eisenhower -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
The Suez Crises
s crisis erupted in the middle east Eisenhower wanted to prevent Arab nation from aligning with the soviet union so the secretary of state Dulles offered to help Egypt finance the construction of the dam on the Nile river but then the Egypt bought weapons from the communist Czechoslovakia -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
