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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. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on November 17, 1869. -
The Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name. -
The creation of the United Nations
The United Nations was made after World War II with the aim of preventing another conflict of such magnitude. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states. The five permanent members of the United Nations consist of Britain, China, The Soviet Union, France, and The United States of America. -
The Yalta Conference
In February 1945 the Yalta Conference was held and it was the second wartime meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt were the ones that held the meeting. During their meeting they decided to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and begin their plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe. Yalta became controversial after the Soviet-American wartime cooperation. -
The End of World War 2
World War 2 ended in multiple ways. In japan it ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, In Europe it ended with the Germans retreating and Hitler and his wife committing suicide, and in Russia it ended with them overpowering the Germans and also making them retreat. -
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. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Truman Doctrine
Implied american supporters and other nations threatened by soviet communism and had to fight against the communism. His speeches outlined policy's as well. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift. Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
The Marshall Plan
Offered to help all nations planning a recovery program even the soviet unions. Pumped billions of dollars and supplies , machinery, and food in the western Europe. -
The Creation of NATO
Offered to help all nations, planning a recovery program, even the soviet unions pumped billions of dollars and supplies , machinery, and food in western Europe. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is 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. The war began on 25 June 1950 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 spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated by Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 5, 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East". -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
