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Potsdam Conference
Potsdam negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies. -
Atomic Bomb: Nagasaki/ Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war, because they wouldn't surrender. -
Long Telegram
George F. Kennan's report on Russia that helped articulate the U.S. government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets and became the basis for the U.S. “containment” strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain Speech
stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism -
Truman Doctrine
gave democratic countries that were under threat from other nations political, military and economic help -
Marshall Plan
Program for the US to give western europe economic aid since they were bankrupt because of WWII -
Molotov Plan
a system created by the soviets to give aid and rebuild countries in eastern europe that were politacally alligned with the soviets -
Berlin Blockade
Soviets blocked off railways, road, and canal access from berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
After the Berlin Blockade, the US responded by airlifting food, water, medicine, and other supplies. -
NATO
Unified and strengthened the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union. -
First Soviet Bomb Test
Detonated thier first atomic bomb named "Joe-1" -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The War of Liberation. It was led by the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong, which resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China -
Hollywood 10
American short documentary film. Each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting -
Rosenberg trial
execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union -
Korean War & Korean Armistice
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Army-McCarthy hearings
series of hearings to investigate conflicting accusations between the Army and Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences -
Hungarian Revolution
countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government of the Hungarian People's Republic -
U2 Incident
U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury