Cold War

By kmong235
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference#:~:text=The%20Yalta%20Conference%20was%20a,coast%20of%20the%20Crimean%20Peninsula.

  • V E Day

    • Victory in Europe causes Germany to surrender to the Russian Army

  • Postdam Conference

    • Officially divided Germany and Austria into 4 parts
    • Korea was divided into Soviet and American zones

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    -Churchill's speech "Sinews of Peace"
    - Declared the iron curtain

  • Truman Doctrine

    -helped any country facing a communist takeover

  • Berlin Blockade

    -Berlin cut all road and rail links
    -West Berlin was completely cut off from food supply and were to be faced with starvation

  • End of Berlin Blockade

    -Berlin blockade stopped

  • NATO Forms

    • Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States

  • Stalin Death

    • Joseph Stalin died -74 years old

  • Geneva Accords

    -ended the French war with Vietminh
    -Divided Vietnam into North and South

  • Suez Crisis

    -British and French invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal
    -attack was widely frowned upon
    -Were forced to withdraw

  • Space Race

    • Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

  • Berlin Wall

    • Berlin wall was built
    • borders were sealed between East and Western Germany

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    • United States spy plane reported construction from Soviets on a nuclear missile base in Cuba
    • closest the world ever came to Nuclear Warfare

  • JFK Assasination

    • President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
    • Was visiting Dallas

  • Vietnam War

    • 150,000 troops sent to Vietnam
    • A war to stop the spread of communism
    • Dominoe theory