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Feb 1945 Yalta Conference, Soviet Union
FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the War -
UN created
Promoted world peace and cooperation -
A-bomb tested
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Potsdam conference
Conference between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss post-WWII; compromise: each side would take reparations from its own occupation zone, divided up GER, created Council of Foreign Ministers, marked the end of wartime alliance -
A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Dropped on japan Hiroshima on 1945 6th of August, by President Truman -
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
Winston Churchill gave this speech in Missouri after receiving an honorary degree. Churchill introduced the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the division between Western powers and the area controlled by the Soviet Union -
Marshall plan
Plan to help Europe recover from war using American money. Congress agrees march 1948 -
Truman Doctrine
-The USA was willing to give advice, equipment and money to any country that was threatened by Communist takeover
-Aim was to stop Communism from spreading any further
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Berlin blockade
What were the causes of the Berlin Blockade? (4) There'd been no long term agreements about Germany's future at the conferences
The Council of Foreign Ministers discussion in Dec 1947 failed to find a solution
There was economic differences between the Allies' zones and the Soviet zone
Soviet zone was losing its residents -
NATO formed
Strengthens international ties between states to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. -
Communist revolution in China
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to help South Korea. China helped North Korea -
Hydrogen bomb developed
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SEATO created
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact is the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, signed in Poland in 1955 -
Sputnik launched
First sattleite to be placed in orbit -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade -
Berlin wall built
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin built by the government to keep East Berliners from the west -
Vietnam War
Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam
