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Big 3 at Yalta +
The Yalta Conference,called also the Crimea Conference,held from February 4 to 11,1945. It was the World War II meeting between the United States,the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.Their purpose was to discuss Europe’s post-war reorganization.The conference convened in the Livadia Palace in Crimea.The goal of conference was to shape a post-war peace to guarantee order and security to liberated people of post-Nazi Europe.Yalta was the second of three wartime conferences among the Big Three. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
The “Iron Curtain”, Churchill’s speech, was so important because announced the beginning of the Cold War. the main idea of this speech was to divide Europe into two separate areas from the end of the World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Truman Doctrine +
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. It was the start of policy of containment. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. He pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. The Truman doctrine, that had both economic and military elements, implied American support for other nations threatened by Soviet communism. -
Truman elected President
On November 2, 1948 Truman was reelected president with many votes in favor. -
NATO Founded +
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed on 4 April 1949.It was created by U.S.,Canada and West Europe Nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.It is often said that NATO was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union,partially true.In fact the Alliance’s creation has three purposes:deterring Soviet expansionism,forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe and encouraging European political integration. -
China falls to Communism
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedongdeclared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The creation of the PRC Also completed the long process of governmental in China began by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. -
Truman fires MacArthur +
In April 1951,President Truman fired MacArthur and replaced him with Gen.On April 11,Truman addressed the nation and explained his actions.He defended his overall policy in Korea.The president believed that they must try to limit the war to Korea for making sure that the lives of the fighting men are not wasted and preventing a third world war.General MacArthur had been fired so they could do that without problems.The concept of a “limited war” came to define the U.S. Cold War military strategy. -
Hydrogen bomb exploded in Pacific
This hydrogen bomb was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll. It was the first full test of the Teller-Ulam design. -
Stalin Dies +
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the union soviet (USSR),from 1929 to 1953. It will be remember forever to have ruled by terror and millions of people died during his reign. On march 5, 1953; at 9:50 p.m. Joseph Stalin died. He was 73 years of age and had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was washed by a nurse and then carried via a white car to the Kremlin mortuary. Stalin was paranoid in any case and in his later years he suffered from arterio-sclerosis. Malenkov succeeded Stalin. -
Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier
Khrushchev became a close associate of Stalin since 1924. In 1953, Stalin died, and Khrushchev grappled with the chosen successor of Stalin, Malenkov; because he wanted to become the fist secretary of the Communist Party. -
Geneva Conference +
The Geneva Conference (April 26-July 20,1954) was a conference which took place in Geneva, CH; whose purpose was to find a way to resolve the problems in Korea and restore peace in Indochina. The US and the USSR, France, the UK and China attended to this conference. for the issue of Korea they didn't adopt any declarations or proposals.On Indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones. -
Rebellion in Hungary
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nation revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. This revolution lasted from 23 October until 10 November 1956 -
McCarthy Dies +
McCarthy died at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on May 2, 1957, he was 48. The official cause of death was acute hepatitis or alcoholism. McCarthy was know to have accused a lot of politicians, inside and outside of government for communist sympathies, disloyalty or sex crime. -
NASA created
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government, which was created on July 29, 1958. -
Cuban Revolution +
The Cuban Revolution was a civil war that took place in Cuba between December 2, 1956, and January 2, 1959 when Castro’s revolutionary forces entered La Habana. Thanks to ideological propaganda the number of militia force army grew up.The civil war lasted three years. Cuban people supported Castro’s revolution because he had promised them to bring back democracy and freedom. The people of Cuba became worse off, economically and politically. -
Kennedy elected
Kennedy was elected President on November 8, 1960. He was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic. -
Soviet Union sends first person into space
On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit. -
Berlin Wall +
The Berlin Wall was started in August, 1961; to separate fascist Western from socialist East.The fall of the Berlin Wall happened by mistake and this Wall was actually two walls. More than 100 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall and more than 5,000 escaped by going over and under the Berlin Wall.Kennedy expressed relief when the Berlin Wall was erected. East Germany called the wall the “Antifascist Bulwark.”A piece of the wall stands in the bathroom of a Las Vegas casino. -
US and USSR establish Hotline +
On June 20, 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union established a “hot line” communication system to lessen the threat of a nuclear war. The agreement was a small step to reduce the tensions between this two country after the Missile Cuba Crisis, 1962. The United States had discovered that the Soviets were building missile sites in Cuba and a possible nuclear conflict was avoided only when Khrushchev agreed that his country would not install nuclear weapons in Cuba. -
Kennedy assassinated
The 35th President of the United States, John Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 p.m., on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.