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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. -
President Truman
Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States -
the Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference is also known as the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference held from 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 for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
The Creation of the United Nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. -
The Long Telegraph
George Kennan, the american charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends a 8,000-word telegram to the department of state detailing his view on soviet union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. his analysis provided one of the most strongest foundations for america's cold war policy of containment. -
McCarthyism
the practice of making accusations of undermining or betraying or disloyalty without proper regard for evidence -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The Creation of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted 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. -
Berlin Blockade/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 Red Scare
communists in the U.S. became known as "reds" for their allegiance to the red soviet flag .it led to a lot of actions that had a intense and long lasting effect on U.S. government and society. federal employees were examined to determine whether they were loyal to the government. -
Duck and cover
Duck and Cover is a civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolkids in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion. -
The Korean War
The war was a war between north Korea and south Korea the war began on June 25 1950 when north Korea invaded south Korea. Following a series of fights along the border -
President Eisenhower
was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 -
The rosenburgs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were U.S. citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine states that a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
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 -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was 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.
