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The Cold War By: Dylan Myers
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Potsdam conference
The potsdam conference was held at cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollem. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States -
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991. -
Truman Doctrine
This was an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech -
Creation of Israel
The end of World War II led to the rapid disappearance of French and British influence throughout the Arab world, as the rapid eclipse of the old imperial powers transformed the politics not only of Asia but of the Middle Ease and Africa as well. -
Marshall plan
It was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WW II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism -
Berlin Air Lift
After World War II, the Allirs partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, and American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. -
Korean War (Is it over?)
The Korean war last from 1910 til World War II ended. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement -
Suez Crisis
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in july of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis -
Sputnik I & Sputnik II
History changed when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artifical satellite was about the size of a basketball. weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its ellipical path. On November 3, 1957, the USSR stunned the world with a new space sensation -- The launch of Sputnik II. Just after the first sputnik, a new and improved space equipment is created. -
NASA is formed
During the late 1940s, the Department of Defense pursued and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of making sure American leadership in technology. A major step forward came when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a plan to orbit a scientific satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) -
Berlin Wall Constructed
The communist Government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barded wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep western "fascists" fron entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missle Crisis, leader of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet. In a TV address on October 22, 1962. President John Kennedy notified Americans about the missiles -
USS Pueblo Incident
The USS Pueblo was a boat that was captured by North Korean forces -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis, refered to in Persian as تسخیر لانه جاسوسی امریکا (literally "Conquest of the American Spy Den,"), was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the U.S. Fiffty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days -
Dissolving of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) formally ceased to exist on 26 december 1991. The increasing political unrest the establishment of the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a coup to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central regime in August 1991 -
Tiananmen Square
The Tiananmen protests of 1989, usually known as June Forth Incident were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing
