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House Committee on Un-American Activities
The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA,[1] 1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". -
Yalta Confrence
War time meetings with government Officials of the United States the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact Formation
The Warsaw Pact, otherwise known as the Warsaw Treaty Organization, was an alliance creating an organised – and Russian dominated - military among central and political ties -
Postdam Conference
When Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchhill and Harry Truman neggotiated for the end of WWII. -
Formation of the united nations
United Nations Organization (UNO) or simply United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations -
Truman Doctrine
States that the United States would provide political, millitary, and economic assistence to all democratic nations under the threat of internal or external authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
a program of loans and other economic assistance provided by the U.S. government between 1947 and 1952 to help western European nations rebuild after World War II -
Berlin Airlift
. At the end of WW II, Berlin was divided into American, British, French, and Soviet sectors. Supplies for western sectors had to pass through the Soviet-controlled zone, and as friction between the USSR and the West widened so the Soviets increased interference with traffic. -
NATO Formation
NATO began with the Washington Treaty of 4 April 1949, drafted upon the basis of the Brussels Pact of March 1948 (UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg), and is a landmark of the start of the Cold War. -
Northern Korean invasion of South Korea
Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. In 1948 rival governments were established: The Republic of Korea was proclaimed in the South and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea in the North -
Rosenburg Exicution
June 19 marks the anniversary of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's historic execution in 1953. Found guilty of relaying U.S. military secrets to the Soviets, the Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage. -
Armictes signed ending the Korean War
Agreement between the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, on the one hand, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the Commander of the Chinese People's volunteers, on the other hand, concerning a military armistice in Korea. -
Sputnik 1 launched
It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and was the first in a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program -
First Man in Space
April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft -
First American in Space
Allen Shepard was the first American in space -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
the berlin wall was errected to sepperate east and west germany -
First man on the moon
Niel Armstrong was the first man on the moon