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Yalta Conference
It was a strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin -
Potsdam Conference
A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
United Nations Formation
Organization founded in 1945 to promise peace. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements. -
Marshall Plan
Foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western European countries after World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin -
NATO formation
A millitary alliance that was formed to counter Soviet expansion. -
Era of McCarthyism begins
A senator from Wisconsin, made a speech claiming to have a list of 205 people in the State Department -
North Korean Invasion of South Korea
This was a conflict between communists and non-communists forces in Korea. -
Rosenberg Execution
Where Julius and Ethel were executed. -
Armistice Signed Ending Korean War
The war was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Alliesat the conclusion of the Pacific War. -
Warsaw Pact formation
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its Satellite States. -
Sputnik 1 Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. -
House Un-American Activities Committee formed
This was an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. -
First American in Space
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The border between East and West Berlin is open and daily half a million people cross the border. -
First Man on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.
