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Yalta Conference
The second War time meeting during WW2. The meeting included Churchill of Britain, Stalin of USSR, Franklin D. Roosevelt of US. The leaders came upon an agreement to demand Germany's unconditional surrender, and began planning for the post-war. -
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The Cold War
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Division of Germany
After its defeat in WW2, Germany was divided into four zones under the control of the US, Britain, France and the former Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Coference
The lack of a common enemy in Europe led to difficulties reaching consensus concerning postwar reconstruction on the European continent. They agreed to further into the Yalta discussion. Many say the Versailles Treaty had handicapped the German economy and fueled the rise of the Nazis.
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"Iron Curtain" Speech
"The Sinews of Peace," that changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East. It was lean that the term has been used for many years.
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Iran Crisis
UK sphere of influence
-Iran: UK and USSR will have troops on the ground, USSR refuses to leave -
Iran Crisis
-USSR refuses to leave
-UK and USSR still have troops in Iran -
Truman's Doctrine
President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover
-Used to help Turkey and Greece
-US support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by outsiders -
Marshall Plan
This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc country considering accepting aid was reprimanded severely. Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries. -
Berlin Blockade
USSR stoped the Western Berlin Allies connection to the outside Allies, no transportation of food
-Symbol of Oppresion
-Border was sealed and War put up -
Airlift
-June 1948 - May 1949
-Western Allies Airlift food and daily needs
-Soviets stop traffic in and out of Western Berlin -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States -
Communist China
-Agreement of Friendship with USSR
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McCarthyism
McCarthy claimed he had a list of 205 people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party. And with the tension of communism no one wanted to take any chances but to believe him.
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NSC-68
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Korean War
-Confronted by UN
-Invasion of South Korea
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Hydrogen Bomb
- Tested first by the US then the USSR -Arms Race
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Warsaw Pact
In response to NATO
-Mutual Defence Treaty
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Suez Crisis
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Sputnik
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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SALT I Signed
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Vietnam War ended
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SALT 2 signed
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Iran-Contra Affair
The U.S. took millions of dollars from the weapons sale and routed them and guns to the right-wing "Contra"² guerrillas in Nicaragua. The Contras were the armed opponents of Nicaragua's Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction.
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Nicaraguan Revolution
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Iran Crisis
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Grenada
The US overthrew the communist government in favor of a pro-Western in less than two months. The Bishop helped to strenghten the relation between Grenada and the communists. But the Bishop was murdered in october 1983. -
Star Wars (Reagan)
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Korean Flight 007