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Yalta Conference
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The big three were asspciated in this conference. The big three were represented by Stalin, FDR, and Churchill.It was decided that Germany would be divided into occupied zones by U.S., British, French, and Soviet forces. Also, no one in the allies would owe the Germans anything except minimal sustituence. -
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The Berlin Declaration
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The Berlin Declaration was also known as the "Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany by the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of the French Republic". This declaration was amde to grant Germany respect. -
Potsdam Conference
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The big three (Churchill, Stalin, and Harry Truman) met up in Potsdam, Germany to Discuss the end of World War Two. This went on from July 17 to August 2 of 1945. Germany ended up surrendering in May of that year. -
Iron Curtain Speech
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The Iron curtain was more like isolation for the Soviet Union. It was a political, ideological, and militray barrier against the rest of the world. The Soviet Union did not forget to seal off its eastern and central european Allies from contact as well. -
Containment Policy
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The Containment Policy was the policy under which the United States strategized how to fight durning the Cold War. Let's not forget the Cold War occured between 1947 and 1989. The United States fought alongside the Soviet Union in this war. -
Marshall Plan
marshall plan
The Marshall plan was basically an aid to Europe as a whole. This was mostly due to the formation of famime within the continent . 16 nations became part of this program. Each nation received about 13 billion dollars a month. -
Berlin Blockade
berlin blockade
the Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the abilities of the United States, Great Britain, and France to get to their land inside of Germany.the, Western Powers made up an airlift that lasted almost a whole year. This way, they dropped off much needed materials to Western Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
berlin airlift
The Berlin Airlift was created because the soviet union locked away the land that belonged to The United States, France, and Great Britain. It was developed so that the occupied lands within Germany would still get the resources they needed. -
NATO
natoNATO stands for north atlantic treaty organization. This came into place when countries in Europe were in grave need of political and Military assistance. -
Korean War
korean war
The Korean War was one of the starting events of the Cold War. This War included 75,000 soldiers who poured across the 38th prallel. It was a war against international communism as a whole -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were both execyted. They were executed because as a couple, they were convicted of espionage in 1951. However, they protested against the government to plead innocence. In the end they were both killed by order of execution by a judge. -
Eisenhower Presidency
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the united states in 1953. Dwight was a man that was very active during War. at first, he was called to a war plans assignment by Marshall. Later on, he commanded the Allied Forces landing in north Africa in 1942. He was also supreme commander of troops in France on D-Day. -
Warsaw Pact
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This pact put the Soviets in charge of the armed forces of member states. it included Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
Sputnik
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Sputnik was brought up during the Cold War. This device was one of the first artificial sattelites made. When it was launched, it was to bring in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. -
Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita led the Soviet Union through the cold War. This man served from 1958 to 1964. Within this time, iut was learned that Nikita did not agree with living in peace alongside the West. This man approved of the Berlin Wall as well. -
Cuban Revolution
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The Cuban Revoluution came into place because when Fidel came in as the new leader of Cuba, he promised democracy and Freedom. in the revolution, Cuba was closer to european powers and they were aginst the United States. -
U2 Incident
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U2 was a spy incident that occurred in The Soviet Union. What had happened was that the U.S. had planes fly over the USSR for many year without them knowing. At one point, on of the spy planes crashed down and Eisenhower was charged with espionage. -
Kennedy Presidency
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John F Kennedy was president from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963. He was not president for four full years because he was assasssinated. Durning his presidency, he raised public interference with national growth. -
Bay Of Pigs
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Bay of Pigs was an invasion that occurred within the time of the Cold War. Cuba was invaded by the U.S. but the fighting lasted no longer than a day. However, Castro had been somewhat prepared for the invasion but not enough to resist American power. -
Berlin Wall
berlinwall
The Berlin Wall was a division between eastern and western berlin. This was due to the occupants of each side. The eastern side wanted to keep western "fascists" out of their land. The wall was up until November 9, 1989. -
JFK Assasssination
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JFK was mudered in Dallas, Texas on Novenber 22, 1963. The killer of JFK was Lee Harvey Oswald- he shot at JFK from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Dipository Building and killed him along with seriously injuring the vice presidnt, -
Gulf Tonkin Resolution
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The resolution gave a wide congressional approval for expansion. this was the resolution to the Vietnam War. -
Vietnam War- American Involvement
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American Involvement took its place in the Vietnam war when they both wanted to stand against Japanese occupatiuon. The US did not support Vietnamese government but it did support the return of the French. -
Nixon Presidency
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Nixon was the 37th president of the United States of America. HE was in office from january 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974. Nixon was the first president to resign from the job. boi quit da job smh -
Apollo 11
apollo 11
Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Pilot Edwin Aldrin were all inside the aircraft when it took off. the aircraft was meant to go and help huuman understand the moon. -
SALT I
SALT stands for strategic Arms Limitation Tasks. There were two of these talks. The first was in finland and it was more about whether or not each nation should complete their plans for ABMs; verification of a treaty; and U.S. concern that the Soviets continued to build more Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs). -
Tiananmen square Massacre
Tiananmen square is a large city in the center of Beijing, China. In this massacre, protestors for a better democracy and for the calls of resignations were killed by chinese forces. this was due to the protestors turning to violence. thousands were killed and about 10,000 were arrested. -
Fall Of The Berlin Wall
wall fall
he Berlin wall was taken down during Reagan's presidency. This was when the Cold War as coming to an end. East and West berlin came together once again on October 3, 1990. -
Dissoltion of the Soviet Union
ussr goneThis is also known as the Fall of the Soviet Union. Representatives from 11 soviet republics met up because they could no longer be part of the Union. Instead, they made up a Commonwealth of Independent States.
