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Potsdam Conference
Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill came together in Potsdam, Germany to discuss European post war issues and the ongoing problems with Japan. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, four days after the conference had concluded. -
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
Winston Churchhill referred to the Iron Curtain a lot so that is why it was called the Iron Curtain Speech. -
Truman Doctrine
stated the reasons for the war and where both the United States and the Soviet Union stood in this pronounced war. -
Marshall Plan
A program that had provided about thirteen billion dollars to aid European countries that were destroyed by World War II. -
Creation of Israel
The nation Israel is established on May 14, 1948, making it the first Jewish state in over two thousand years. -
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Berlin Airlift
President Harry S. Truman ordered a direct military response to have airplanes land in West Berlin to provide the necessities of life to the people of West Berlin because the Soviet Union had blocked all the roads and railroads leading there -
Formation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a military alliance that was set up to protect non-communist nations in Western Europe. -
Communist Witch Hunt
Joseph McCarthy had a list of 205 State Department staff members, who he claimed were members of the American Communist Party. -
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Korean War
North Korea was having conflicts with South Korea. China backed up North Korea and the United Nations helped South Korea. -
Rosenberg Spy Case
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty of spying with top secret information that they were relaying to the Soviet Union about the atomic bomb that United States had -
Spunik 1
The SU launched the Spunik 1 which was the first man made satellite. -
USS Nautilus
The USS Nautilus was a submarine that was 323 feet long and had the ability to displace four thousand ninety two tons when it was submerged. It was the first ever submarine to be powered by nuclear energy. The USS Nautilus was built by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. -
Suez Crisis
The British troops they had Israel and France join them in an invasion to take back a canal. -
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 was the 2nd satelite lauched into space. USSR -
Shooting Match
Nikita Khrushchev declare during an interview that the Soviet Union and the United States have a shooting match. -
NASA was formed
The United States and the Soviet Union were very interested in Space and it became a contest of getting into space, It became a huge major and it started the Space Race. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
President Kennedy ordered the CIA to prepare a force of Cuban exiles for an attack on Cuba in March 1960. -
Berlin Wall Constructed
The Berlin was a wall that seperated West Berlin and East Germany. It was also seperated the boundry of democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
USS Pueblo Incident
THe USS Pueblo was on a routine survallience of the North Korean shore and North Korea started open fireing at them to get them to surrender. -
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Iran Hostage Crisis
Iranian students took more then 60 American Hostages because Ayatollah Khomeini just came to power and was very Anti-American. -
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U.S. & Soviet boycotts of the Olympics
was boycotted by the United States as an act to protest against the invasion in Afghanistan -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Many students that wanted a greater democracy and for the Chinese Communist Party to resign, were arrested and killed by the Chinese troops. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennidy ordered that the Soviet Union remove missiles that they had in cuba. Since both countries would not agree, there was a threat of World War III occurring which would have been a nuclear war.
