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The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco
After working for two months the fifty nations represented at the conference signed the Charter of the United Nations on June 26th. Poland was unable to send a representative to the conference so they signed the charter on October 15th, 1945. The League of Nations formally dissolved itself on April 18th, 1946, and transferred its mission to the United Nations. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The meeting was mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-town Europe. The Yalta was the second of three wartime conferences among the Big Three (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin). -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting of the principal Allies in World War II to clarify agreements previously reached at the Yalta Conference. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
The Army-McCarthy Hearings
Democrats asked that the hearings be televides hoping that the public would see McCarthy for what he was, the senator agreed. By the time the hearings ended in mid-June, the senator had lost even his strongest supporters.McCarthy charged his accusers with being tools of the Communists, but he no longer had credibility. Although McCarthy remained in the Senate, his power was gone. -
The launch of Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The rocket used to launch Sputnik could carry a hydrogen bomb to American shores added to American shock and fear. When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, they also launched the space race. -
The U-2 Incident
The U-2 incident is a 1960 incident in which the Soviet militay used a giuded missile to shoot down an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory. These spy planes flew more than 15 miles high. The incident made Americans willing to use up considerable resources to catch up to the Soviet Union.
