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Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference was a Conference in which the big three US , UK, and USSR came to talk about what to do after the war. The goal of the Conference was to created a Post war order, Peace treaty issue, and stopping the war efforts. The western allies also wanted to stop the spread of communist. In the Conference the US talk about it new weapon the Atom bomb. They also plan the term of the surrender of Japan. -
End of WWII
Japan formally surrendered, the war was over. -
United Nations
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Churchhill's Iron Curtain Speach
Churchill, who had been defeated for re-election as prime minister in 1945, was invited to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he gave this speech -
containment policy
1947 the US created a new policy called, the Containment Policy. The policy of containment became the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war with the Soviet Union. Containment is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. The Containment policy help a lot influence the US in many countries like korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Containment was the middle-ground between detente and rollback. George F. Kennan, -
Marshall Plan
Europe was devastated by years of conflict during World War II. Millions of people had been killed or wounded. Industrial and residential centers in England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium and elsewhere lay in ruins. Much of Europe was on the brink of famine as agricultural production had been disrupted by war. Transportation infrastructure was in shambles. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Berlin Blockade started on April 1,1948 when the Soviets blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to stop the Blockade but if they stop introducing the new Deutschmark from West Berlin. In response the allies begin the Berlin airlift to get supply to west berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO /ˈneɪtoʊ/; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
China's civil war
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. -
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. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
H-Bomb
he United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. -
Mutually Assured Destruction
a military doctrine known as Mutual Assured Destruction, a.k.a. MAD. Mutual Assured Destruction began to emerge at the end of the Kennedy administration. MAD reflects the idea that one's population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. In short: Whoever shoots first, dies second. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961. Dwight David Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. Before being President, Eisenhower was a a five-star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.The presidency of Eisenhower was a time of peace and prosperity. His main legacy is the Interstate Highway System. He also signed many Civil Rights acts to desegregation the Military. He also created NASA started the space race. -
Stalin's Death
To the great relief of many, he died of a massive heart attack on March 5, 1953. He is remembered to this day as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi domination—and as the mass murderer of the century, having overseen the deaths of between 8 million and 10 million of his own people. -
End of Korean War
Ended at the 38th parallel in a stalemate. -
SEATO
In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw pact was a Treaty of friendship and mutual Assistance. The Warsaw pact was mainly created to counter the west new NATO pact. The Soviet also want the Warsaw pact to control all military force in Central and Eastern Europe. -
USSR's first atomic bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. They also placed animals in cages nearby so that they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human-like mammals. The atomic explosion, which at 20 kilotons was roughly equal to Trinity -
vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Francis Gary Powers
CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers took off from a base in Pakistan bound for another base in Norway, with his planned flight path transgressing 2,900 miles of Soviet airspace. Near the city of Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Ural Mountains, Powers' plane was shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in January 1957, and Congress approved it in March of the same year. Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957. Sputnik 1 launched started the Space Race. The American reaction to the launched of Sputnik 1 was called Sputnik crisis. Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Sputnik was some 10 times the size of the first planned U.S. satellite. Sputnik began the Space Age. -
Fidel Castro Take Over of Cuba
established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro -
John F Kennedy
Elected in 1960 as the 35th president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy became the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by counter-revolutionary military trained and funded CIA. After Fidel Castro took over cuba the US started seeing how to get rid of him. President Eisenhower, authorized the CIA to plan the Bay of Pigs Invasion to get rid for Fidel Castro. Bay of Pigs Invasion started April 17 1961 when President Kennedy give the green light.The invasion had failed and on April 20, http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion -
Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the nuclear-armed Cuban missiles were being installed so close to the U.S. mainland–just 90 miles south of Florida http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis -
JFK Assassination
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx -
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1969. n the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United States President, with a vision to build "A Great Society" for the American people. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/lyndonbjohnson -
SALT
In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. The development of an ABM system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating by shooting down incoming missiles.
Johnson therefore called for strategic arms limitations talks (SALT). https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/salt -
Richard Nixon
ichard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/richardnixon -
Nasa's First moon landing
When the lunar module lands at 4:18 p.m EDT, only 30 seconds of fuel remain. Armstrong radios "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Mission control erupts in celebration as the tension breaks, and a controller tells the crew "You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, we're breathing again." http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html -
Gerald Ford
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."
He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.
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Jimmy Carter
immy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/jimmycarter -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving "peace through strength" abroad. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/ronaldreagan -
George Bush Sr.
George H. W. Bush, as the 41st President (1989-1993), brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation" in the face of a dramatically changing world. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/georgehwbush
