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China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1950. Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War) -
wwll ending
Having agreed to unconditional surrender, Japan surrendered and the surrender was signer on Spetember 2. 1945 they aboard the batttleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay (http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/end.html) -
United Nations
To promote internation co-operation and to prevent another conflict (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) -
ChurchHill's Iron Curtin Speech
Considered one of the opening volleys annoucing the beginning of the Cold War. (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech) -
Truman Doctrine
foreign policy created to counter solviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. Pledged to contain Solviet threats to Greece and Turkey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine) -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The goal was to rebuild devastated war regions. Remove Barriers, modernize industry. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan -
Berlin AirLift
The allies defeated Germany in the Soviet Occupied zone. The Russians wanted Berlin for them selves so they blocked railroads, canals, and highways; making it nearly impossible to get food. The allies decided to supply food for them from air. (http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-airlift -
NATO
Formal Alliance between the territories or North America and Europe. The main purpose was to defend each other from the communist taking control over the their Nation. (http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/NorthAtlanticTreatyOrganizationNATO.asp) -
USSR's First Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb (Russian: Создание советской атомной бомбы) was a top secret research and development program begun during World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project) -
Korean War
75,000 soldiers went across the 38th parallel. First military action of the Cold War. American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. The Korean peninsula is still divided today. (http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war) -
H-Bomb
After the Soviet atomic bomb success, the idea of building a hydrogen bomb received new impetus in the United States. In this type of bomb, deuterium and tritium they are fused into helium, thereby releasing energy. President Harry S. Truman announced work on the hydrogen bomb was to continue. (http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/page04.shtml) -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) -
Stalin's Death
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, died of a heart attack
