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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. -
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World War II ends jn Europe
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945. -
U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
First East European Communist government set up in Alabania
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Communist seize power in Poland
Poland, as a result of World War II, for the first time in history became an ethnically homogeneous nation state without prominent minorities due to the destruction of indigenous Polish-Jewish population in the Holocaust, the flight and expulsion of Germans in the west, resettlement of Ukrainians in the east, and the repatriation of Poles from Kresy. -
Truman Doctrine announced
The Truman Doctrine was the name given to a policy announced by US President Harry Truman on March 12th, 1947 -
Berlin Airlift begins
On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. It was a daunting logistical task to provide food, clothing, water, medicine, and other necessities of life for the over 2 million fearful citizens of the city -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb
the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning." -
Communists win Chinese Civil War
During China's war with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had moved his forces deep into the interior, leaving a political vacuum in the east to be filled by the Communists. -
U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces.
In June 1950, North Korean troops unexpectedly attacked South Korea and America wanted the invasion immediately brought before the Security Council. -
U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan government.
The 1954 Guatemalan was a covert operation carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution -
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed.
In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
First Summit Meeting between President Dwight Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev caps his trip to the United States with two days of meetings with President Dwight D. Eisenhower
