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Long telegram
Long Telegram from Moscow helped articulate the U.S. government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets and became the basis for the U.S. containment strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War. -
atomic bomb
When an atom of radioactive material splits into lighter atoms, there's a sudden, powerful release of energy. this invention contributed to the ending of japanese threats and hostilities. -
potsdam conference
conference at the end of the war between europe and the us, russia and uk.... -
iron curtain speech
speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism. -
truman doctrine
the idea that the US should give support to countries threatened by Soviets or Communists. est in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking for aid to Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. It was originally called the "Brother Plan" in the Soviet Union. It can be seen to be the Soviet Union's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution, known in mainland China as the War of Liberation, was the conflict, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman Mao Zedong, that resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China, on 1 October 1949. The revolution began in 1946 after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49). -
marshall plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program), was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion (equivalent of about $114 billion in 2020 in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. Replacing an earlier proposal for a Morgenthau Plan, it operated for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. -
berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin. -
berlin airlift
On 24 June, the Soviets severed land and water connections between the non-Soviet zones and Berlin. That same day, they halted all rail and barge traffic in and out of Berlin. The West answered by introducing a counter-blockade, stopping all rail traffic into East Germany from the British and US zones. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries, 2 North American countries, and 1 Asian country. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
first soviet bomb test
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. -
Alger Hiss case
alger hiss was an american government official occused in 1948 of spying for the soviet union. he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Korean War & Korean Armistice
The Korean Armistice Agreement (Korean: 한국정전협정/조선정전협정, Chinese: 韓國停戰協定/朝鮮停戰協定) is an armistice that brought about a complete cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. The aftermath of the Korean War set the tone for Cold War tension between all the superpowers. The Korean War was important in the development of the Cold War, as it showed that the two superpowers, United States and Soviet Union, could fight a "limited war" in a third country.