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Formation of the United Nations
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations endorsing the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace. -
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The Potsdam Conference
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical 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 term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union. On either side of the Iron Curtain, state -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to help Europe, in which the United States gave economic upport to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Creation of Israel
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War or the First Arab–Israeli War was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states and Palestinian Arab forces. -
Berlin airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin, had cut off its supply routes. -
Formation of NATO
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. Still fighting -
Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 -
Warsaw Pact formed
An organization formed in Warsaw, Poland, comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. -
Sputnik 1 & 2
Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite (October 1957), remained in orbit until early 1958, when it reentered Earth's atmosphere and burned up. Sputnik 2 carried a dog, Laika, the first living creature to orbit Earth; since Sputnik 2 was not designed to sustain life, Laika did not survive the flight. -
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States . -
Berlin Wall Construction
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba against the United States. Is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a Nuclear War. And is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction, being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
Kennedy assasination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. -
USS Pueblo Incident
USS PUEBLOUSS Pueblo is an American technical research ship which was boarded and captured by North Korean forces on January 23rd, 1968. North Korea stated that Pueblo strayed into their territorial waters, But the United States claims that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident. Pueblo is still held by North Korea today. Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy currently being held captive. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
An international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology -
Salt I & Salt II Agreements
SALT II was a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961. -
UN Resolution 2758
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 was passed in response to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1668 that required any change in China's representation in the UN be determined by a two-thirds vote. -
Nixon Visits China
Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong in Beijing, February 21, 1972. U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the Republic of China. -
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords of 1973 intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War, ended direct U.S. military involvement, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
South Vietnam falls
North viatnamese and vietsong forces captured south viatnamese capital of saigan and forcing south viatnam to surrender and end the viatnam war -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran Hostage Crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Iranian students, took over the US embassy in Tehran. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
Afghanistan was invaded by the soviet union. The Soviet helped the Afghan communist government in its conflicts with anticommunist muslums. -
U.S. & Soviet boycotts of the Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist-friendly countries. -
Korean Airline flight 007
The aircraft was en route from New York City via Anchorage to Seoul when it strayed into prohibited Soviet airspace and was shot down by Soviet jet fighters. -
U.S. invades Grenada
The bishop was put to be the prime minister, causing problems when the breakdown and civil order threatened the lives of medical students who were living on the island. -
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics radically changed the world's economic and political environment. No other conflict of interest dominated the post World War Two world like the cold war did. One man is credited with ending the cold war, Mikhail Gorbachev.
