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Big 3 at Yalta
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were at the Yalta to meet with Stalin to discuss the final attack on the Germans and Japanese and the future of the post-war world. -
Cold war starts
The cold war was the struggle between two superpowers, the United States trying to stop the spread of communism, and the Soviet Union trying to expand communism. It Started at the end of world war two and ended after the collapse of the USSR on December 26, 1991. -
Rebellion in Hungary
it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II and broke into Central and Eastern Europe. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall plan was a program the United States created to help Europe recover from the world war 2 damage. The U.S gave over 12 billion$ to help rebuild the western European colonies. -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major crisis of the cold war. Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
China falls to Communism
Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China, leading the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC (peoples republic of china) -
Korean war stars
The Korean war started because the conflict between the democratic republic of north Korea and the republic of south Korea. During this war 2.5 million lives were lost. -
Rosenberg trial
Rosenberg was arrested in 1950, 2 weeks before the Korean war started.weeks before the war ended him and his wife were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Hydrogen bomb exploded in the pacific
The United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, let the bomb explode in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy. -
Stalin dies
Stalin died at age 73. He suffered a major stroke on march 1st and over the next few days he died. -
Cease fire in Korean war
The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory. -
Geneva conference
The conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose was to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
Sputnik launched
the soviet union dropped Sputnik. it was the worlds first artificial satellite. -
NASA created
NASA was created by Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA stand for the national Aeronautics and space administration.It is an independent agency of the excecutive branch of the U.S federal government responsible for the civilian space program. -
Cuban revolution
was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista. -
Kennedy elected
Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. He was a senator from Texas. -
Soviet Union sends first person to space
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into space. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group brigade. -
Cuban Missile crisis
known as the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Kennedy assassinated
Presiden Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
