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Yalta Conference, Soviet Union
Yalta Conference was the 2nd wartime meeting between Winston Churchill( British Prime Minister), Joseph Stalin(Soviet Premier), U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. All three leaders agreed on unconditional surrender and began post-world plans. -
United Nations
On this date the Charter was signed by 50 repansenitives. Poland signed it later becoming the 51st member state. -
A-bomb tested
At 5:29:45 a.m. the first Atomic bomb is tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was a success. this also mark the end of the Manhattan Project. -
Potsdam Conference
The final meeting for The United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain during World War 2. this mark growing tension of US/Russia. -
Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” his speech seemed to be a opening volleys as it was one of the beginning of the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was 1st announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman. It was a foreign policy to stop geopolitical spread of Russia in the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan(the European Recovery Program, ERP) was a plan to fix Europe economics in the years 1948 and 1951. This plan was named after Secretary of State George C. Marshall. He introduce this plan at a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. -
Berlin Blockade
Russia blocks road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin. it was the beginning of one of the most dramatic standoffs in the history of the Cold War. -
NATO( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the US and 11 other Western nations to create NATO. The Warsaw Pact, in 1955, was founded by the Soviet Union and other Communist nations in Eastern Europe. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the PRC(People’s Republic of China). This announced was the end of a civil war between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT) -
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Korean War
Korean War began when about 75,000 soldiers Across the 38th parallel. This was the !st military action of the cold war. -
United States tests first hydrogen bomb
Hydrogen bomb is the world’s first thermonuclear weapon. the testing gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race. The Hydrogen bomb Hydrogen was approximately 1,000 times more powerful than a regular bomb of it's nature. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization(aka SEATO) goal was to prevent communism from spreading in the region. Only two Southeast Asian countries became members despite its name. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense organization that puts Russia in charge of in controls of the armed forces of the member states. states in inculcated the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was also called the Second Indochina War. it lasted 19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day. -
Sputnik launched
Sputnik was the world’s first artificial satellite. Named after the Russian word for "satellite". -
Bay Of Pigs
Bay of pigs failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military was trained and funded by the US government's CIA program. -
Berlin Wall buit
East German authorities Build the to permanently close off access to the West. the wall stood as a tangible symbol of the cold war for 28 years. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
President John F. Kennedy announce in a televised speech that U.S. spy planes spotted Soviet missile bases in Cuba. these missiles were big enough to attack major cities in the USA. -
A bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
First deployed atomic bomb in the world is drooped on Japanese city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 80,000 people were immediately killed in Hiroshima while in Nagasaki about 40,000 people died in the explosion.
