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Yalta Conference
There there three importants people they were Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. They discussed what to do about Poland sense it got invaded by the Germans then Poland's government fled to Britain. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the last meeting of World War ll. Churchill and Stalin issued a declaration demanding unconditional surrender from Japan. The Conference centered on postwar Europe. The council of Foreign Ministers was agreed upon, with membership from the Big Three, China and France. The administration of Germany was established, also with a central Allied Control Council. -
Churchill’s iron curtain speech
Churchill's iron curtain speech meant that Russia built the Iron Curtain, the news spread to Eastern Europe from Western Europe. He implied that the Soviet Union had separated the Eastern European countries from the west. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman established that the United States would provide military, political, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat. The Truman Doctrine also reoriented the United States from foreign policy, away from the withdrawal from regional conflicts not involving the U.S. directly.What caused the speech was that the British Government would no longer provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government. -
The Marshall Plan is announced
The Marshall Plan European Recovery Program was a United States program that provided aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War ll. It Provided more than 15 billion dollars to help with finances and rebuilding efforts. One goal was to stop the spread of communism in Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift
At the end of World War ll, allied powers held a peace conferences at Potsdam and Yalta figured out how they would divide up Germany's territories into 4 sections. They gave eastern part to the Soviets and the western part to the United States and Great Britain. They agreed to cede a small part the the territories to France. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, the U.S and their allies decided to supply their sectors of the city to the air and carried about 2.3 million tons of cargo to them. -
The Formation Of NATO
NATO stands for (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). It was created by the U.S., Canada, and other Western European nations to provide security against the Soviets. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance that the U.S. entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. After the war, nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. -
The Formation of West Germany
The Formation of West Germany was formed as a separate and independent nation. The separation marked the effective end to any discussion of reuniting East and West Germany. After World War ll, Germany was divided into 4 zones. The arrangement was supposed to be temporary, but after a while the decision was made for it to be permanent. -
The Soviet Union (Russia) explodes first atomic bomb
The Soviets was at a test site in Kazakhstan when they detonates its first atomic bomb, coded by the name ¨First Lightning¨. The Soviets had scientists that constructed buildings, bridges, and other structures to measure the effects of their bomb. They had also placed animals in cages close by so they could test the effects of nuclear radiation on human like mammals. The atomic had destroyed three structures and killed all of the animals. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliances established between the Soviets and many other European countries. The Soviets formed the alliance as a counterbalance to the NATO. When the Federal Republic of Germany entered NATO. The Soviets feared the consequences of the strengthened NATO and a rearmed West Germany and hoped that the Warsaw Treaty Organization could both contain West Germany.
