Cold war tanks

Chapter 26 The Cold War

By duckstein13

  • The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco

    The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco
    This event occured when 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the axis powers. This name came about from the President at this time which was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    - Hailey Duckstein

  • The Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference was the wartime of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nation of war-torn Europe.
    -Hailey Duckstein

  • The Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference
    Truman's first meeting with Stalin occurred in July 1945 in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. During the conference, Churchill was replaced by Clement Attlee, who had just won the British election. At Potsdam, Truman got word that the atom bomb had been tested in New Mexico. He hoped to intimidate Stalin. -Ericka

  • the launch of sputnik

    the launch of sputnik
    in 1957, the Soviets used one of their rockets to launch Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. When the Soviets launched Sputnik, they also launched the space race. NASA was established in 1958 to oversee an American space program that could compete with the Soviets. -Ericka

  • The Army- McCarthy hearings

    The Army- McCarthy hearings
    The Army-McCarthy hearings began in late April 1954. Democrats asked that the hearings be televised, hoping that the public would see McCarthy for what he was. Ever eager for publicity, the senator agreed. By the time the hearings ended in mid-June, the senator had lost even his strongest supporters. Although McCarthy remained in the Senate, his power was gone.-ericka

  • The U-2 Incident

    The U-2 Incident
    This occured in the 1960s and was when the soviet military shoot down an American plane. The Soviets used a guided missle to not just shoot down an ordinary plane it was a U-2 spy plane which was over Soviet Territory.
    -Hailey Duckstein