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the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany.
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The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy.
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At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon. A week later US bombed Hiroshima.
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On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later that same day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Naga
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The Cold War was a non violent war, almost as a race to greatness, against the United States and the Solviet Union. It was also a political and militaristic state of tension between the two.
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The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold Wa
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this helped rebuild western europe with the aid of the united states, to combat the economic instability.
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Britain, France, the United States, Canada and eight other western European countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949, establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 occurred shortly after Khrushchev arranged the removal of Hungary's Stalinist leader Mátyás Rákosi
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In August 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
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The launch of Sputnik inaugurated the Space Race
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East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall. keeping non industrialized peoploe from the west from coming into the better east side.
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this was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba
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brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine, in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty of any country attempting to replace Marxism–Leninism with capitalism.
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glasnost weakened the bonds that held the Soviet Union together and by February 1990, with the dissolution of the USSR looming, the Communist Party was forced to surrender its 73-year-old monopoly on state power. this fall eased much of tension which brings the cold war to an end.
