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WWII // Entering the War
President Franklin Roosevelt had a strategic plan to get involved with foreign relations and WWII. At first, he focused on moving the United Stated to an isolated stated where little contact outside was occurring. He then moved from isolation to intervention by opening trade with the Soviet Union and Latin America through what is called the Good Neighbor Policy. -
Pearl Harbor
One of the most infamous attacks to happen on American soil took place on December 7, 1941. This event known simply as Pearl Harbor was a Japanese attack on a naval base off the coast of Hawaii, Pearl Harbor. This act of terror was inevitably the main cause that led us to join World War Two. -
Infamy Speech
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech known as the infamy speech the day following the Pearl Harbor attacks. The purpose of his speech was to ask permission and approval from congress to enter the war and to motivate the public to join and willingly help win the war. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting to discuss how Germany should be reorganized following the recent ending of World War 2. At this meeting, the leaders of the three Superpowers, United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, were involved. (US- Franklin D. Roosevelt; GB- Winston Churchill; SU- Joseph Stalin) -
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb // Ending WWII
Towards the end of the war, the clear winner was already known. However, to officially make Japan surrender, President Harry S. Truman was informed of this bomb shortly after he took office and he then made his decision. The Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were affected by the bombs and due to the power displayed by them, Japan surrendered. -
Iron Curtain
After WWII, there was a race; a race to spread each countries', U.S. and Soviet Union, ideas. President Winston Churchill gave a very inspiring and famous speech which we all know as The Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain is a figurative depiction of communism spreading over European nations by the Soviet Union. This helped spark the cold war and the war on Communism. -
Clifford Elsey Report
On September 24, 1946, President Harry S. Truman was presented with the Clifford-Elsey Report. This document had a list of Soviet violations of agreements they have made with the united states. This caused tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States to grow dramatically. -
Truman Doctorine
To help nations fighting the spread of communism, the Truman Doctrine provided financial aid and assistance to countries to help them out. This doctrine gave $400 Million to Turkey and Greece. President Harry S. Truman wanted to show that he was willing and eager to help any nations that wanted to fight communism from spreading no matter who they were or our previous relations with them. -
Paris Peace Treaties
The Paris Peace Treaties were signed on 10 February 1947 as the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference. The victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties with minor Axis powers following the end of World War II in 1945. -
Marshall Plan
Following the war, many European countries were destroyed and did not have the supplies and money to hep re-establish their cities. George C. Marshall had a plan to provide financial aid to these countries. The main purpose was to make America look like the good guys and to pursuade those countries from reverting to communist ideas that the Soviets were spreading. This made Joseph Stalin furious which caused the Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets to rise. -
Germany Occupation Policies
This Occupation policy is labeled as JCS 1067. Its economic section previously restricted steps towards economic re-establishment of Germany. This was replaced by another policy which says that a European nation requires financial aid for a stable balance. -
Withdraw troops from Korea
On November 14, the United nations had a gathering and passed a plan the demanded the calling for the withdrawal of any soldier from Korea that was not Korean soldiers. This also demanded there be free election and this created a United Nations Commission strictly assigned to the peninsula of Korea -
Berlin Airlift
Following the second World War, the Soviets closed all ways of transportation from West Berlin. The U.S. in reaction to the Russian’s move was to supply their areas that were blocked off by dropping care packages through way of air. The Berlin Airlift lasted for over a year and dropped over 2.3 million tons of goods and supplies into West Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Communist nations. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Soviets' Atomic Bomb
The United States were the first and the only nation to have any possession of a weapon such as the atomic bomb. When the Soviets got word of the bomb, they soon began their launch on creating their own atomic bomb. On the day that they tested and successfully detonated an atomic bomb was the day all American began to worry. They were now major scare to our nation. -
Warsaw Pact
In response to other nations joining NATO, the Soviet Union and various other Soviet-influenced-communist Eastern European Nations formed the Warsaw Pact. This led to increased Cold War tensions, as the world was slowly being divided between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
