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The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez -
Presidents in Office
Of the elected presidents, four died in office of natural causes William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, four were assassinated Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, and one resigned Richard Nixon -
The Creation of the United Nations
Representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations -
Yalta Conference
During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world -
End of WW2
German surrender to the Allies -
The Long Telegraph
George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
McCarthyism
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. When North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover is a civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion -
The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
Occurred during the Cold War on, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev -
Iron Curtain
The national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe .
