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The Yalta Conference
The major participants were,
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, FDR.
At the Yalta Conference it was decided that Germany would be split into four occupying zones. It was also decided that the Soviet Union would attack Japan following the defeat of Nazi Germany.
It was decided that Germany would be identified and occupied by the Allies. Germany would be split up into four zones of occupation, with Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union being the four occupying powers. -
The Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry S Truman.
The Potsdam Conference is perhaps best known for President Truman's July 24, 1945 conversation with Stalin, during which time the President informed the Soviet leader that the United States had successfully detonated the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945.
The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War II came to an end. -
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
This was a speech spoken by Winston Churchill
It refers to the fact that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary 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 Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance was involved. Something needed to be established in order to start a foundation for foreign policies. It implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. The Truman Doctrine became the foundation of American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect. -
The Berlin Airlift
President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. It West Berlin economy to recover and the necessary stockpiles of food, medicine, and fuel to be replenished. The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. -
The Warsaw Pact
The countries involved were Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. It was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954. President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the Warsaw Treaty
