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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was basically to discuss about the post war in Europe. -
Nuclear Arms race
US and Soviet beginning to creat stockpiles of weapons. They sought new ones to deliver the weapons to potential targets. -
Atomic bomb
US uses the first atomic bomb against Japan. The US uses atomic bomb against Japan because Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Trumans goal was to destroy the entire city without carrying about the inoccent people. -
Truman Doctrine
Gave money to the countries that were being attacked by communism. -
Marshall Plan
US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII -
Communist Takeovers
Communist parties began to take over in North Korea. North Korea once it was communist it began to try and take control of all Korea. Communisim became well known quickly. -
NATO
North Altantic Treaty Organization. This treaty involved 12 nations including the United Kingdom.This was After the stopping of communism. -
Korean War
The Japanese were forcing koreans to work in labor for them. Later on the US landed in North Korea. Koreans in that time were all communist. Then North Korea and South Korea started attacking each other. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was between the US with South Vietnam , and North Vietnam. The South Vietnam was about to become communist. -
Sputnik
After the US and the Soviet Union endevored and demonstrated their powers they decided to show their scientific capabilities, they competed in superiority in space. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a stong but dirty man that all he wanted was to gain power. Later on he started his era McCarthyism. -
Bay of Pigs
The United States was feeling threatened by Cuba because they were the only western countrie in the hemisphere that had adopted communism. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was build to prevent the access of the Eastern side of Berlin.The Berlin wall was to separate the communist parties since Germany had been separated in four parts, U, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. -
Cuban Mssile Crisis
The Soviet was sending weapons over to Cuba.Cuba later on saw the U-2 spy pass by over Cuba and photographed a surface to air missile site. -
Warsaw Pact
This pact was between the eastern European countries. The warsaw does not have an independent organizational structure but functions as part of the Soviet ministry.
