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End of WWII
Allies accepted Germany's surrender and Adolf Hitler committed suicide. This was the beginning of the tensions that started the cold war. -
The Yalta Conference
Meeting of the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt to decide what would happen post-war -
The end of WWII
The Germans surrendered. -
The Yalta Conference
A meeting in Yalta to discuss the post-war world. -
The Creation of the united nations
The United Nations was created to uphold international peace. -
Iron Curtain
The border that separated communism and the rest of Europe. -
The Red Scare
The fear of communism spreading to western countries. -
The Long Telegraph
The American charged d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Duck and Cover
A method of "protection" against the affects of Nuclear attacks made up to bring a sense of mind to those in danger. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion to help build up Europe after the war. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
First big international crisis of the cold -
The Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
The Korean War
The war between North and South Korea. North Korea was communist. -
McCarthyism
Senator Joe McCarthy and chief counsel Roy Cohn interrogating suspected communists. -
Duck and Cover
A tactic used to give atomic bomb victims a peace of mind before dying. -
The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the united states -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe. -
The Suez canal
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
Incident occurred during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
John F. Kennedy
35th president of the united states -
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States
