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House Un-American Activities Committee formed
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Reorganized from its previous incarnations as the Fish Committee and the McCormack-Dickstein Committee and with a new chairman, the cantankerous Martin Dies of Texas, HUAC's strident attacks on the Roosevelt administration prior to the outbreak of the war did -
House Un-American Activities Committee formed
a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, created to investigate disloyalty and subversive organizations -
United Nations formation
The United Nations was formed only to be later split up. -
Yalta Conference
major world war two conference of the three chief allied leaders, president fdr of the united states, prime minister winstin churchill of great britain, and premiere joseph stalin of the soviet union, which met at yalta in the crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. It ended on Feb. 11,1945 -
Yalta Conference
Went to the eleventh of february that year,was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied by Germany. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the large-scale economic program, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe. Went from 1947-1951 -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into Communism -
Berlin Airlift
June 27, 1948 to May 12, 1949. United states helped people on the other side of th "iron curtain" by flying supplies to them. -
NATO formation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO was formed on april 4th 1949. -
North Korea's invasion of South Korea
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
North Korea signs and armistice ending the Korean war with South Korea -
Rosenberg Execution executions
A controversy ensued over the guilt or innocence of the Rosenbergs, a debate that has continued to this day. Some asserted that the Rosenbergs were victimized by anti-Semitism. Some believed that the Rosenbergs were merely scapegoats for the Korean War (the judge all but blamed the couple for the Korean War). Despite mixed public opinion, the prosecution achieved victory after only fifteen trial days and one day of jury deliberation. The Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell were convicted on March 30, 1 -
Warsaw Pact
In May 1955, the Soviet Union institutionalized its East European alliance system when it gathered together representatives from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania in Warsaw to sign the multilateral Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, which was identical to their existing bilateral treaties with the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
This was the 1st earth orbiting satelite. -
First Man in Space
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin launched in a Vostol 9 -
First American in Space
On May 5, 1961, Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. blasted off in his Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. His 15-minute sub-orbital flight made him the first American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The city of Berlin is in the eastern portion of Germany about thirty-five miles west of the post-1945, Polish border and located on the Spree River. The early town had become the capital of the Mark of Brandenburg at the end of the fifteenth century and later capital of the kingdom of Prussia. When the German states created the German Empire in 1871, Berlin became the capital of the new Germany. The city remained the capital of Germany until after World War II, when the United States, France,