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Potsdam Conference
This conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet Union from July 17, 1945 to August 2, 1945. Its purpose was supposed allow 3 leading allies to plan the post-war peace and avoid the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the United Kingdom, the U.S., and the Soviet Union. -
Creation of the United Nations
After the San Francisco conference ended, the United Nations began. Its main purpose was to keep the international peace and security, cooperate with the other nations to solve economic, social, and humanitarian problems. The U.S., France, the United Kingdoms, India, Brazil, etc. Are some of the countries that make part of the U.N. -
Creation of the Iron curtain/Warsaw pact
The Iron curtain was a metaphor for the extreme ideology that separated from the Allies from the Soviet Union. Russia created the Warsaw pact as counterweight or to balance the power of the NATO and the Western Bloc. The Warsaw pact was founded on May 14, 1955 and it was dissolved on July 1, 19991. -
Truman Doctrine
It was established by president Harry S. Truman, it stated that the U.S. would provide economic, political, and military aid to democratic nations if they are under the threat from any authoritarian force. -
The Second Red Scare
It was a period in the United states, characterized by the political repression against the communist. It was feared that an invasion or attack would come from any communist country trying to promote communism. It was also expected to have spies from the Soviet Union infiltrated in the U.S. It went from 1950 to 1956. -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) was created by the U.S., Canada, and many Western European countries. It is a military alliance, and its main purpose was to protect the Allies freedom and security by political and military means. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was a political and military effort to overthrow the government. This revolution was from 1953 to 1959. Castro was the head of the movement in a guerilla war against President Fulgencio Batista. After the revolution, assumed political and military power as Cuba's prime minister. Cuba was allies with the Soviet Union at the time, and the U.S. saw that as a security threat to the people. -
The Vietnam War
From November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. Vietnam was divided into North and South Vietnam. The war started because North Vietnam wanted the political and economic aspects of the country to go under the communism ideology. The South fought to prevent this from happening. President Nixon signed the Paris Peace Accords, ending the U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese War. The North Vietnamese ceased fire. -
Suez Crisis
This crisis or dispute went from October 29 to November 7 of 1956. The Egyptian government wished to take control over the Suez Canal from the French and British governments. They wanted to manage it. This crisis was also known as the "Tripartite Aggression." It caused a political fallout in Britain. Egypt was the winner in this dispute, they did not receive the freedom to use it, but they did get their shipping rights back. -
Bay of pigs invasion
It was a failed military landing operation on the coast of Cuba in 1961. It was an attack aimed at Fidel Castro's communist way of government. The CIA was the ones who did the attack. Kennedy was in office, the invasion was to push Castro from power. -
Berlin crisis of 1961
This crisis was caused because of a dispute between the Soviet Union and the East German, they both wanted the authorization to control and patrol the checkpoints and examine important documents coming from the U.S. It ended on November 9, 1961. The Soviet Union lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The point of this invasion was to stop Alexander Dubceks reforms in Prague and strengthened the authoritarian communist party of Czechoslovakia. It was a success for the Soviets, but it brought unexpected consequences to the communists. -
Chernobyl Disaster
It was a nuclear accident near the city of Pripyat, Ukrainian SRR in the Soviet Union. It caused the death of 31 people. It was at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
It was a guarded concrete wall, of 13.78' and 27 miles long. It was the first step towards German reunification. The fall of the Berlin affected the already unstable economy badly. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
During 1991, a political crisis began with many republics were already leaving the Union. It was the end of their federal government and a sovereign state. And the leaders of three of its founding members declared that the Soviet Union no longer existed.
