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Yalta
The heads of governments, "Big Three", American president Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Josef Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in order to discuss the European post war world order. Their plans bring up a declaration to respect democracy throughout Europe recognition of a de facto Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Also, to divide Germany into seperate occupation zones. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Commonly known as FDR, Democrat, an American statesman and political leader who served as the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. President during the Great Depression. He was looking to build a foundation that would make the United states the Arsenal of Democracy. He encouraged equality and passed the New Deal coalition. President of US during World War II, great supporter of Allies financially. -
New Arsenal of Technology
The world powers have been growing even stronger finding a new weapon of mass destruction that could be more threatening. Development of nuclear weapons by the United States made the rest of the world active. Then, it had become a arms race on who is the superior power by their arsenals. Nuclear weapons were the new face of power because it made a country appear stronger. It had became a competition between US and USSR of who could build more of these deadly weapons. -
Iron Curtain
Imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II.The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War, It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman. Pledges American assistance to any nation in the world threatened by Communism, officially establishing the worldwide containment of Communism as a vital American national security interest. -
Tom Lehrer. So Long, Mom
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The Marshall Plan
George Marshall proposes the Marshall Plan. An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.he Marshall Plan required a lessening of interstate barriers, a dropping of many regulations, and encouraged an increase in productivity, labor
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Berlin Airlift
Under General Lucius Clay, the United States begins Operation Vittles the 11 month Berlin Airlift. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. American planes would drop off necessary items into Berlin for support. -
NATO
Ten Western European nations join the United States and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an anti-Soviet military alliance that extends the deterrent threat of America's nuclear weapons to cover Western Europe. Members states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Communism Wins China
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declares the People's Republic of China as the Communists. Causing Nationalist to flee to Taiwan, and a new era grows. -
Joseph V. Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. New vision of industrialized Russia. Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase, which saw a significant rise in tension with the Western world that would later be known as the Cold War. He was a threat to the US because he would compete in the arms race, and was trying to spread the idea's of communist reforms around the world (Red Army). -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union forms the Warsaw Pact, a Communist military alliance intended to counter the threat posed by the West's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Agreement between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR. The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism. -
Sputnik
he first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit, It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. Causes fear for the US because Russia had been able to create a satellite and send it to space first, it launches the space race. -
NASA created
The United States creates NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to lead the space race with the Soviet union. Race in order to claim territory in Space began and US began making investments in the space program in order to overcome the Russians. NASA was created in order to prove to Russians that the United States is stronger and more technologically modern. -
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U-2 Incident
American pilot Gary Powers's U2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union. President Eisenhower denies responsibility for the international incident and refuses to apologize, precipitating the collapse of a planned Paris summit between the United States and Soviet Union. Plane was on a top secret mission to photograph deep inside of Russia of denied territory when it had been shot down. -
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CIA Invasion
The Bay Of Pigs invasion, American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. A failed military invasion of Cuba, Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. US had agreed not to into Cuba's problems and had been caught trying to find its way in, Cuba makes claim to the United Nations about US breaking the rules. -
Berlin Wall
Created by the communist in East Germany. The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years from that East Germans from fleeing to the West. a barrier that divided Berlin, constructed by the German Democratic Republic.he Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall". -
Cuban Missile Crisis
he Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons as defense. -
Harry S. Truman
The 33rd President of the United States, an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Encouraged United States to engage in internationalist foreign policy and renounced isolationism. Truman helped found the United Nations in 1945, issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to contain Communism, and got the $13 billion Marshall Plan enacted to rebuild Western Europe.
