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Period: 1945 BCE to 1945 BCE
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. Wikipedia -
Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. -
potsdam conference
represented by Joseph Stalin -
Truman Doctrine
he was a American foreign policy with the primary goal -
Marshall Plan
it was an American initiative that passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. -
NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) formed
it was an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. -
Korean War began
war between south & North Korea -
Warsaw Pact formed
collective defense signed Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other eastern socialist during Cold War -
Hungarian Revolution
nation revolution against the Hungarian people's republic and its soviet-imposed policies -
Russian first country to put a human into space
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin - human travel to space -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
it failed landing operation of the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 -
Berlin Wall built
divided Berlin from 1961 - 1989, construction of the wall was commenced by the German democratic republic on august 13, 1961 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear soviet missiles in Cuba -
First US troops sent to Vietnam
us military advisers was in place -
Neil Armstrong first man on the Moon
buzz aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo lunar module eagle -
US troops pulled out of Vietnam
it ended in military involvement -
Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan
fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the soviet army and democratic republic of Afghanistan -
Solidarity movement in Poland crushed
walsea was elected president of Poland