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Chapter 26 Cold War
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The Yalta Conference
It was sometimes called the Crimea Conference; The people attended was, the heads of government in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, which was respresented by, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. During the Conference, Churchill and Roosevelt also tried hard to restrict-post war influence in the Unoted States -
The Establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco
The United Nations is a international organization that was found after World War II. This organization begun in April 25, 1945, when 50 govts. came together. This organization was determined to " save succeeding generations from the scourage of war", which means that this organization was made because they wanted the United States to be out of less wars in the future. -
Potsdam Conference
The Conference was held in, Potsdam Germany, which was near Berlin, which the city Cecilienhof.The people that were in this conference was, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and the British Minister Winston Churchill. They were discussing the post-war arrangements in Europe. They were also discussing to prevent themselves out of future wars. -
The McCarthy Hearings
The McCarthy-Hearings, was a series of hearings that was held by the United State Senates Subcomitees . The reason why they had these hearings because, they wanted to invesigate the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Joseph McCarthur. -
The Launch of Sputnik
The Launch of Sputnik was launched in the year of 1957, and it was the first artificial satiliette that was launched by the Soviet Union. The artificial satilliete took 98 mins. to launch. Sputnik was about the size of a beach ball, which weighed 183.9 pounds, and it took them 98 mins. to launch. The plan first started in 1955. -
The U-2 incident
This incident happened in the 1960's and it occured during the Cold War. The U-2 incident was incident that was between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union used a missle to try to shoot down the American U-2 spy plane. Also the U-2 incident was a incident in which the Soviet military used a guided missle tried to shoot an American plane down.
