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Cold War

  • Tehran Conference

    Tehran Conference

    Big Three meet to discuss opening a second front against Germany.
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Big Three discuss Europe's post-war reorganization.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Big Three discuss punishment for Nazi Germany.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    Trials to punish prominent political and military Nazi leaders.
  • Division of Germany

    Division of Germany

    Germany Split into four pieces; United States, Soviet Union, France and Great Britain.
  • 1st United Nations Meeting

    1st United Nations Meeting

    United Nations was formed to keep peace and avoid war. It replaced the League of Nations.
  • Truman Doctrine

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. puts military forces in Greece and Turkey to prevent them from being overtaken by the Soviets,
  • Creation of Cominform

    Creation of Cominform

    Communist conference in responce to the Marshall Plan.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Large scale ecenomic aid program where the United States helped to rebuild the European financial system.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Soviets blockade West Germany. The Allies begin sending suplies to West Germany. The airlift lasts for 11 months.
  • End of Chinese Civil War

    End of Chinese Civil War

    Chinese nationalists and communists fight.
  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO

    Collective defence force consisting of 28 nations.
  • Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb

    Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb

    Russia was the second nation to create a functioning atomic bomb. This eventually led to the Cold War.
  • North Korea invades South Korea

    North Korea invades South Korea

    Southern Korea established capitolistic government while Northern Korea had communist. North invaded the South and America came to aid the south.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Soviet responce to NATO.