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Yalta Conference
The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan. -
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The Iron Curtain
Coined as the definition of the separation of the Capitalist countries from the Communist countries by Winston Churchill when he said, From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was intended to rebuild the economies of Western Europe. Marshall was convinced the key to restoration of political stability lay in the renewal of national economies. -
The Berlin Airlift
the Soviet Union attempted to control all of Berlin by blocking off roads and transportation from the city of West Berlin. The Truman administration reacted with a daily airlift which brought food and supplies into the city. -
The Korean War
the Korean War began when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army acrossed the 38th parallel. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. To americans it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them. -
The Rosenberg Spy Case
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, pertaining to the gibving of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
The Dien Bien Phu
The final confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
The U 2 Airlift
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. Two weeks before the opening of the East–West summit in Paris. -
The Bay of Pigs
Called for two air strikes against Cuban air bases. A 1,400-man invasion force would disembark on a suprise attack. Paratroopers dropped in advance of the invasion would disrupt transportation and repel Cuban forces. Simultaneously, a smaller force would land on the east coast of Cuba to create confusion. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from going to the West. Its destruction was celebrated around the world. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was discovered by a U-2 spy plane that the Soviets were building Nuclear Missile Silos in Cuba. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. The Resolution stated that “Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repeal any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent any further aggression. -
Nixon Visits China
A meetin in china where Nixon and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai urged early peace in Vietnam. Nixon's promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Taiwan. North Vietnam's feared a Chinese-American sellout-trading U.S. military reduction in Taiwan for peace in Vietnam. -
The German Unification
The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity, celebrated on 3 October -
The Soviet Union Collapses
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was thought by the west as a victory for freedom and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The Collapses was because a communist group kidnapped Gorbachev and the country rebelled.
