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The Suez Canal
An Israeli armed group forced their way into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after their president Nasser nationalized the Canal in July -
The Long Telegraph
George Kennan sends an 8,000 word telegram to the Department of State explaining his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy concerning the communist state. -
The Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the U.S. escalated in the last 1940s and early 1950s, mania over the perceived warning posed by Communist in the U.S. became well known as the Red Scare. -
End of WWII
WWII coming two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second War was the deadliest and widespread war in history, including 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million civilian and military deaths. -
The Yalta Conference
February 1945 The Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and U.S.President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The three leaders agreed on to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for the post-war. -
The Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations was born of perceived essential, as a means of better judge international conflict and arranging peace that was provided by the old League of Nations. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological fence constructed by the Soviet Union after World War II to adhesive off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open touch with the West and other non-communist areas. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine established that the United States would contribute political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from exterior or interior authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
The European Recovery Program also known as, The Marshall Plan, channeled $13 billion to finance of the economic recuperation. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
International emergency that arose from an venture by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers to desert their post-World War II authority in West Berlin. -
The Creation of NATO
In 1949, the expectation of further Communist growth caused the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy produce a series of examinations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to reveal supposed communist infiltration of mixed areas of the U.S. government. -
The Korean War
The Korean War begun when 75,000 North Korean soldiers poured across the 38th parallel, the borderline between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover was a drill the United States made everyone just in case they were being attacked when there were Germany plane in the sky. -
The Rosenburgs
A couple that lived in America but was apart of the Communists Party. They were telling the Soviet Union abut the atomic and were executed. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty creating the Warsaw Pact, a reciprocal defense group that put the Soviets in order of the armed forces of the member states. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
In this doctrine Eisenhower wanted economies to have more band for their buck -
U-2 Incident
This occurred May 1960 whole Eisenhower was president and the premier Nikita when the U-2 was shot down by a Germany Airlift.
