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The Yalta Conference
President Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin Plan the postwar world.
Several agreements reached Yalta later on played an important role in causing the cold war. -
End of WWII
Allies Britain, France, China, the Soviet Union beat Germany and took control of Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
It's goal was to aid those who worked to resist being controlled by others. In the long term the US fought to stop the spread of communism. -
Marshall Plan
European nations create a plan for their economic reconstruction and that the United States provide economic assistance. -
The Berlin Airlift
Truman ordered a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. -
The Warsaw Pact
the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
The Creation of NATO
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
The Creation of United Nation
The nations were given the power to vote on resolutions and to choose the non-permanent members of the Security Council
