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Yalta Confernce
Yalta Conference British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet for a meeting to discuss further plans. They made plans the countries returing to one another again. They also discussed germanys surrender. -
Berlin Declaration
[Berlin Declaration](American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin) The postdam Conference was when the Berlin Declaration was made while discussing plans of japans surrender. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference This was the last World War tw meeting amoung the nations. American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin were the ones who attended the conference. They discussed such things like after war problems and also the surrender of japan. -
North Vietnam
North Vietnam After the bombing of hiroshima japan surrenders the war. War is finally over and Vietnam declares independence from France. This day was what all were dreaming about and now it brought happiness. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Iron Curtain Speech This speech is given by Winston Churchill and it is the speech that is the start of the cold war. There will be a curtain put to divide countries. This was known to some what start the cold war and to give everyone kind of a understadning of it. -
Containment Policy
Containment Policy This was a policy set out for americans and russina and the foreign policy basically. It was set that foreign poeple could be in the states and such -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan This was a plan to recover europe also know as the european recovery program whihc had 13 billion dollars in finace. This was a time changing moment for the european people. Not only was it effective it was probably one of the best things that could happen. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade This was when the Berlin wall was put which divded germany and berlin. Many people had friends and family on the other sides and they could never see then again becuase there was a huge wall put in between them and they literally couldnt do anything about it. People tried to jump over to be with there families and friends again but they would get killed from sercuirty. It was down right awful. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift These airlifts were made to get food and other things to countires who werent able to. Thye made over 300,000 flights and planes landed or flew off every thirty seconds. Mainly there was food to berlin and such and this was during the ending of World War two. -
NATO
NATO This was known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was a defense pact towards the soviet against the Weastern Europe. The cold war was crazy cause the soviet union had gained a lot of power. -
Second Red Scare
Second Red Scare THis was like the first Red Scare that had happended during a war but this time the seond one was during the cold war. -
Korean War: American Involvment
Korean War: American Invovlment North Korea and South korea got into a really bad war calling it the Korean war. The United States came in to help South Korea and this war went on for three years and lets just say it was a very bloody attack. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg This was called the Rosenbery trials. They were accussed of selling secret info and such about russian bombs. They were a couple put to court to be executed. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev Nikita was the one who took over the cold war for stalin so basically he took over even when the war ended, kinda like stalins time was already done. He was the new leader of the Soviet Union. -
Eisenhower Presidency
Eisenhower Presidency Eisenhower ran for president with a lot of president elction ideas. While running he had many poster that said vote for ike or i like ike becuase that was his nickname at the time and he did come around after the world war two eneded and at the times of cold war were he had meet with nikita. -
Vietnam War - American involvement
Vietnam War- American Involvment This was a war against South Vietnam and North Vietnam. And it was a very big one used with lots of equipment ans also help from america, who was helping south korea. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact This was when Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. in this they had members from diffrent areas like poland and bulgaria and even more. This stayed intact until 1991. -
Hungarian Revoultion
Hungarian RevoultionThis was such a dangeous time to be around that a quater million people feld the country. Many people were killed and brutally injured. -
Sputnik
Sputnik This was the first ever satellite put into space. The word sputnik stands for satellite in russian. This helped with radio signals for the war. This was a successfull launch and it was bigger than expected. -
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Revoultion Castro wanted to cause a revoultion and batista was in on it with them but at the end america obviously stpped it. I read about this but i cant relly eplain the matter. -
U2 incident
U2 incident This was a spy plane that was the americans. They shoot down with this plane into the soviet and it was planned to go. It was on duty in the air but it was shot down from 70,000 feet. A very sophiscated high intellgency plane. -
Kennedy Presidency
Kennedy Presidency John F. Kennedy is elected president on November 8,1960. He is the youngest president to get elected in the United States of America. Many people really liked kennedy becuase of how poised and honest he was. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs This was acutally an invasion called the Bay of Pigs. American CIA trained cuban exiles to go and invade cuba but this was a horrible fail. Everyone just hated Fidel CAstro so they just kept trying to invade cuba by doing invasions like this one. -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall This was a wall built from concerte and barb wire divding east and west berlin. Peopl had familes on the other side also friends that they could never bee with again. If they did try to go over the wall to the other side to be with one another they would get killed becuase there was lots of guard dogs and security, which was the military. -
JFK Assassination
JFK Assassination He was assassinated while riding in his convertible car through dallas,texas. He was driving with his wife, goveoner and wife. There was three gun shots and the presidnt was shot and the govenor was wounded. Thye went to the hospital and 30 minutes later the president passed at age 46. No one ever find out, till this day, who shoot the president. They had several rumors but none true. -
Nixon Presidency
Nixon Presidency This was a very close election becuase of the votes. His full name is Richard Nixon and he was elected president of the United States of America. The promises he set out wasnt much of a help because it was hard for him to do most things. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 This was a very big and amazing day becuase neil armstrong and edwin aldrin. They were the first ever people to land on the moon and put the american flag on it. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits ChinaNixon went to china for a week to discuss dimplomatic relations between china communists and the united states. Thye discussed they would increase the US and china trades, all good. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Falling of Berlin Wall The berlin Communist party decided that it was fianlly okay to take down the wall and annoucned it, so to celebrate everyone would jump over and cheer and go to there friends who they were cut off from a while back. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tiananmen Square Massacre This day was awful becuase a bunch of troops come into the city of Bejing and they attack and kill many innocent protestors. This made the protests worst becuase of what they had done and it went on for three more weeks, because of the killing and arresting that they had done. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union On this day they decided to stop the Soviet Union and just create sepearte cities and this made the fall of the Soviet Union. -
First man in Space
First man in SpaceYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. A twenty seven year old man. Vostok 1 orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and was guided entirely by an automatic control system.
