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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference took place to come to an agreement on whether Poland would have a communist government or a of the citizens choice. The leaders that participated consist of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt. -
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Harry S. Truman
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End of WWII
World War 2 ended in multiple ways. In japan it ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, In Europe it ended with the Germans retreating and Hitler and his wife committing suicide, and in Russia it ended with them overpowering the Germans and also making them retreat. -
The Creation of The United Nations
The United Nations was made after World War II with the aim of preventing another conflict of such magnitude. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states. The five permanent members of the United Nations consist of Britain, China, The Soviet Union, France, and The United States of America. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan, the American charge 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. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Berlin Blockade / Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift. Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
The Marshall Plan
Offered to help all nations planning a recovery program even the soviet unions. Pumped billions of dollars and supplies , machinery, and food in the western Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
Implied american supporters and other nations threatened by soviet communism and had to fight against the communism. His speeches outlined policy's as well. -
The Creation of NATO
Offered to help all nations, planning a recovery program, even the soviet unions pumped billions of dollars and supplies , machinery, and food in western Europe. -
The Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. -
McCarythism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cove`r was an emergency drill that would be taught to children in case of a nuclear/atomic attack -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Rosenburgs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War -
The Suez Canal
On October 29, 1956, Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis. The Israelis soon were joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict, and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957. -
The 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
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, 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.
