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Yalta Conference
Was when the meeting of the heads of the government represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchhill, and Premier Joseph Stalin. -
United Nations (UN)
International organization to settle world problems & avoid armed conflicts. -
Arms Race
An arms race denotes a rapid, competitve increase in the quantity or quality of instruments of military or naval power by rival states in peacetime. -
Potsdam Conference
Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe. And Stalin wants buffer of Communist states in Eastern Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman asked for $400 miliion in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine. -
Harry Truman promises to fight Communism
President Harry Truman gives a speech and and says that the U.S. will help any country that is threatened by communism. The speech is called the Truman Doctrine. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan nations were assisted graetly in their economic recovery. From 1948 through 1952 European economies grew at an unprecedented rate. Trade relations led to the formation of the North Atlantic alliance. Economic prosperity led by coal and steel industries helped to shape what we know as the European Union. -
Berlin Blockade
It stopped the reunification of Germany under pro-American government. It also allowed the Soviet Union to retain control over most of Eastern Europe. Lastly, it prevented the Soviet Union from placing missiles within striking range of Western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
The western powers organized and airlifted a total of 2,326,406t tons of food, coal, passengers, and other items into the city in a total of 278,228 flights. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
("collective securtiy" alliance) Someone provided mutual help if attacked USA, Britain, France, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Norway. -
Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Republic of Germany was created sep. 1949, as a democratic state. -
The United States joins the Korean War
President Harry Truman sends U.S. troops to Korea.The U.S. and other countries in the United Nations join the war because they want to stop communism from spreading to South Korea. -
Hydrogen Bomb
It was created in the year of 1952, and was more destructive than the 1st atomic weapons. -
Joseph Stalin dies
The doctors, almost too frightened to touch him, they announced that he had suffered a massive stroke. -
Korean War
Created the idea where the two superpowers would fight in another country, forcing the people in that nation to suffer the bulk of the destruction and death involved in a war between such large nations. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union--an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and premier in 1958. -
Warsaw Pact
Military Alliance of Communist Block nations USSR, East Germany, Albania, Czech, Poland, Hungary, & Romania ("collective security") -
Space Race
The long term effects of the space race on Nebraska and other regions of the country came in the way of the space race changed the educational system and the imaginations of our people. -
U-2 incident
Was when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Yuri Gagarin
Russian Cosmonaut, who was the 1st man to travel in space. He went on the vostok 1 spaceship. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The bay of pigs invasion was one of the most important political decisions the US had to make. Its effects are still being felt to today, especially in the Cuban communities of the United States. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built in the year of 1961 to prevent East Berliners fleeing to the West. But it was taken down in the year of 1989, because pressure mounted on the East German authorities to open the Berlin border. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was really about the location of strategic weapons and the desire of both the Americans and Soviets to contain each others power in the world. -
Vietnam War
Was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its prinipal ally, the United States. More than 3 million people, inluding 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War and remained in Afghanistan until mid-february. -
INF Treaty
Required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanetly forswear all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. It allowed us to measure how much farther we must go to address the key security issues that remain between the United States and Russia. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Gorbachev had worked assiduously to make sure that the Congress gave him the necessary two-thirds majority, including making repeated threats to resign if the majority was not achieved. He achieved this with a slim 46 votes. -
German Reunification
Germany was divided up at the end of world war 2, but they were runified during the Cold War, Which made the west and the east side happy. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
The Soviet Union disintigrated into fifteen seperate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
