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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, which were represented respectively by Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Ambassador George F. Kennan writes to the Secretary of State with a lengthy analysis of Soviet policy in an attempt to explain their recent uncooperative behavior. This message would later become
famous as the "long telegram." -
speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” -
The Truman Doctrine was a American foreign policy with the main goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion. -
The Marshall Plan European Recovery Program was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade was created to block supplies coming in to west Berlin from the U.S. -
The Berlin Airlift was done by the U.S. where American pilots would fly over the Berlin Blockade bringing supplies to Western Berlin -
China had started a communist revolution in 1948 because of the failing economy and country -
NATO was created from a number of countries on the east side of the world to project Europe from any threats. -
Alger Hiss was being prosecuted for being a spy for the Soviet Union back in the 1930's. -
The soviet Union created a bomb a lot quicker than they should've because they had spies in the Manhattan project. -
The Korean War was a war between north and South Korea. North Korea had help from China and South Korea had help from the UN. Both North and South Korea wanted to be unified but couldn't agree on policies. North Korea wanted Korea to be unified as a communist country and South Korea wanted democracy. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were spies for the Soviet Union were convicted of espionage providing secrets about the American Military and were executed in 1953. -
The Korean Armistice was an agreement to cease all fire in the Korean was and agree to a "tie". -
Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings in which the army was arguing with the U.S. Senator about the accusations that the U.S. Senator was pushing the army to much. -
Forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
A revolution across the whole country of Hungarian was down to get the Stalinist government out of the country and pick up democratic policies from the USSR. -
A U.S. U2 spy plane was flying over the Soviet Union taking aerial pictures it was shot down by the Soviet air defense. -
The U.S had hired and trained Cuban exiles to go to Cuba and try and invasion on the country but they were quickly all killed. -
The Berlin wall was built by the Soviet Union to divide Berlin from The Soviet part from the rest of the city. -
The Soviet Union was using Cuba to build nuclear weapons. The missiles ad supplies being brought to Cuba brought much tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S. until the Soviet Union stopped building the bombs and remove them. -
While in a parade through Dallas Texas President Kennedy was shot 2 times and killed. -
North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships. -
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Police riot in full swing in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, television broadcasts live as anti-war protesters chant "The whole world is watching", -
Kent State's killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. -
The U.S. agreed to send home remaining military personnel from South Vietnam within 60 days. North Vietnam agreed to return all American prisoners of war. North Vietnam was allowed to leave 150,000 soldiers and to retain the territory it controlled in South Vietnam. -
President Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes received by a non-incumbent presidential candidate of over a million votes. Promised restoration of military forces -
Reagan announced SDI on national television stating that he calls "upon the scientific community in this country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" -
Reagan's harsh challenge to tear down the Berlin Wall gave shape to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform, the wall came down two years later. -
East Berlin's spokesman for the communist party announced a change in his city's relationship with the West. Starting at midnight he stated the citizens of the GDR are allowed were free to cross the country's borders.