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Yalta Conference
The US, Soviet Union, and Great Britain held a conference to discuss future plans on dividing Germany, forming the United Nations, German war reparations, and the future of Poland. -
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Postdam Conference
The leaders of the victorious countries met once more at Potsdam in July, 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died in April, 1945, had been replaced by the Vice-President, Harry S. Truman. While the conference was taking place, the British General Election results were announced. The landslide victory of the Labour Party meant that Clement Attlee replaced Winston Churchill as Britain's main negotiator. -
US Bomb
The United States used the first atomic bomb in the war. -
Russia against Japan
Russia enters a war with Japan in the East. -
Japan surrenders
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The UN
Shortly after World War II, on October 24, 1945, 51 States ratified the United Nations Charter with the hope of freeing our world from the possibility of war. The UN was thus created and equipped with instruments that its predecessor lacked. The UN established several programs intended to reduce, as much as possible, all the factors leading to outbreaks in conflicts. -
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Winston Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" speech. Then, Truman declares to be an active role in the Greek Civil War. -
The Truman Doctrine
On 12th March, 1947, Harry S. Truman, announced details to Congress of what eventually became known as the Truman Doctrine. In his speech he pledged American support for "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures". This speech also included a request that Congress agree to give military and economic aid to Greece in its fight against communism. -
The Plan
The Marshall Plan was announced. As the war-torn nations of Europe faced famine and economic crisis in the wake of World War II, the United States proposed to rebuild the continent in the interest of political stability and a healthy world economy. On June 5, 1947, in a commencement address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George C. Marshall first called for American assistance in restoring the economic infrastructure of Europe. Western Europe responded favorably, and the Truman adminis -
Berlin Blockade
The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. By 1948, the Western allies began moving towards consolidating their occupation zones in Western Germany into a single independent German state. As part of that process, the U.S., France and Britain took steps to reform the currency in the parts of Germany they occupied, in order to promote economic recovery -
NATO
(North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. The alliance includes 28 members in North America and Europe, with the newest being Albania and Croatia who joined in April 2009. -
the Korean War
Prior to the war, Korea was already divided politically. Democratic South and Communist North both strongly desired to spread their form of government throughout the nation. Their desires reached to the point where war seemed inevitable, resulting in a bloody battle that lasted for three years. The United Nations took sides with the South, whereas communist nations (the Soviet Union and China) sided with the North. An armistice was signed in 1953, and the agreement established a demilitarized zo -
The Vietnam War
Vietnam was divided into 2 country's, south and north, North taken over by Communism. South trying to defend itself and help stop the spread of communism, along with the rest of the world. France helped south try to defend from a take over from North Vietnam, but failed and quit. Pretty much the same with the USA, we also gave up and withdrew after France withdrew. The a couple years later, South Vietnam loses. -
Space Race
When Kennedy was inaugurated, the United States was profoundly behind in the Space Race. NASA was already established, and the nation was attempting to get man into space, but no one had yet set the goal of reaching the moon. With the United States not even taking on the goal of reaching the moon before the Soviets, it was not at all possible for the country to win the Space Race in the end. -
Bay of Pigs
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs had a lasting impact on the Kennedy administration. Determined to make up for the failed invasion, the administration initiated Operation Mongoose, a plan to sabotage and destabilize the Cuban government and economy. The plan included the possibility of assassinating Castro. 50 years later, relations with Cuba remain strained and tenuous. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created to seperate Berlin and was taken by different countries. The Soviet Union, US, Great Britain, and France all had control over 4 half of Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon both won the presidency in part by positioning themselves as fierce anticommunist Cold Warriors. Once in office, however, both presidents found their ambitions of rolling back worldwide Communism thwarted by the threat of apocalyptic nuclear war. In the nuclear age, direct confrontation with the Soviet Empire simply became too dangerous to contemplate—a fact dramatized with terrifying clarity by the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.
