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Potsdam Conference
Conference of three heads of government including the USSR, USA, and UK. They discussed relationships between each country. Leaders involved were Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman. The outcome was to determine post war boarders in Europe. -
Formation of the United Nations
international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations -
Truman Doctrine
Relations policy from president Harry Truman where Greece and Turkey are helped by the US in economic and financial aid so they arent taken by the Soviet Union. The Policy changed, stating possible US intervention in far away conflicts. -
Creation of Israel
Civil War between Arab and Jewish population. There was tension between Jews and Arabs before and they both had conflict with Britain. As a result of their civil war, Israel retained the area. -
Marshall Plan
US giving Europe economic aid towards the end of World War II to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The outcome was to hopefully make Europe prosperous again. It was named after Secretary of State George Marshall. -
Berlin Air Lift
Halted all passenger trains and freight to berlin. All ground routes are cancelled so they resort to using the sky as an airlift for carrying freight because it couldnt be sseen as a threat opposing to trucks and tanks that will. -
Formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization where nations agree to defend together against an attacking party outside the organization. Headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium. Members are from North America and Europe. -
Korean War
War between South Korea, against North Korea and the United Nations and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mainly because the split of Korea over political division. US military occupied the southern half and the Soviet military occupied the northern half. They attempt to unify, but there is still tension between North and South Korea today. Full death toll:1.2million. A division of Korea was agreed apon callled the Armistice. -
Stalin Dies
Stalin's health deteriorated towards the end of World War II. He suffered from atherosclerosis from his heavy smoking. He suffered a mild stroke around the time of the Victory Parade, and a severe heart attack in October 1945 -
Warsaw pact
a formal alliance therein thw warsaw pact, after the soviets had already created a network. -
Suez Crisis
Arab Israeli War, with Britan, France, and Israel against Egypt. the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced them to withdraw. It was in response to Egyptian president Nasser seizing control of the Suez Canal Company in ordetr to pay for the Aswan High Dam. The canal was used for shimpents of oil from the Persain Gulf to Europe. Nasser was a victor, Britan and France lost influence in the Middle East. -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam allied by the Soviet Union China and other communists, against South Vietnam allied by the US and other Anti communist allies. The war was mainly over communism and trying to stop it from being spread, which is why the US became involved with it. -
NASA Formed
Government responsible for space exploration and established by Dwight D. Eisenhower. The US and the Soviet Union competed in many different ways besides war. The race to space was won by the Soviet Union getting the first man in space, but the US had the first man on the moon. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
CIA sponsored military under President Kennedy, intended to overthrow Fidel Castro and were defeated by defending Cuban forces. It strengthened Castro's administraion and its ties with the Soviet Union. Casualties: Cuban forces casualties between 500 and 4,000. -
Berlin Wall construction
The Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart. It was the "Iron Curtain" that separated east and west Germany, because West Germany had not been "de-nazified" and referred to it as the wall of shame. The intent was to restrict freedom of movement. Death toll of 100 people trying to get over the wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Idea of Soviets using nuclear missiles on Cuba. It almost became a nuclear conflict. Soviet Union and Cuba against the United States. Led to a nuclear hotline between the US and the USSR. -
Kennedy is Assassinated
Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife -
USS Pueblo Incident
American Ship Boarded by North Korean forces for going into Korean territory. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Treaties on the issue of the control of arms between the US and the Soviets. -
Salt Agreements
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. -
1972 Nixon visit to China
It was the first time the US had visited China in 25 years because they had been enimies. -
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
Expelled the republic of china from unlawfully occupying the United Nations. -
Paris Peace Accords
Intended to bring peace for the Vietnam War and stop the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
South Vietnam falls
The war with viet cong and fell to the north -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days clamed for terrorism. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. -
US and Soviet Boycott of the olympics
Boycott of the olympics to protest the soviets invading afghanistan in 1980. Then in the 1984 olympic games, the soviets and many other countries boycotted the games because they felt in danger at the los angeles games. -
U.S. invades Grenada
The invasion showed problems with the U.S. government's "information apparatus," -
Korean Airline Flight 007
Soviets shot down a Japanese airliner because there was suspicion of it being a spy mission. -
Iran Contra Affair
a diplomat attached to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was kidnapped by the Hezbollah, a Lebanese Islamic fundamentalism Shiite group with strong links to the Khomeini regime in Iran. -
Chernobyl disaster
The nuclear powwer plant in Ukraine was a catastrophic nuclear accident -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Demonstraions in Bejing spring of 1989 and recieved support from the city. exposing within chinas poitical leadership. 241-2,600 deaths. -
Iron Curtian Descends on Europe
Over 600 east Germans went past the berlin wall. -
Dissolving of the soviet union
Soviet Union goes down after their president Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. it also marked an end to the cold war. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
