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Yalta
The Yalta Conference took place in Russia resort town in Crimea during world war II. For the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. -
Potsdam
The Big Three-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and U.S. President Harry Truman. Met in Potsdam to discuss handling Germany. The negotiators confirmed the status of a demilitarized and disarmed Germany under four zones of Allied occupation -
Truman's Hammer
After many months of brutal fighting in the Pacific, an American soldier dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima Japan, killing 70 000 people. Three days later, U.S. dropped another automic bomb, which ended WWll. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman established that the U.S. would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations in need. This ended in 1948. -
Marshal Plan
European Recovery Program (ERP) was an American initiative to help Western Europe, where the U.S. gave 13 billion dollars in support to help rebuild Wester European economies after WWll. -
Berlin Air Lift
At the end of WWll U.S. Britain and the Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Berlin Blockade
An attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the U.S. to travel to certain sectors of Berlin which was located in East Germany. -
NATO
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by an external party. The membership houses 28 states like Canada, U.S.A, Germany, Italy, and Poland. During most of the Cold War, NATO's watch against Soviet Union and Warsaw pact did not actually lead to military action. -
Federal Republic of Germany
The reuniication of West and East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, enlarged now to 16 states, and became known simply as Germany. -
Peoples Republic of China
It has over 1.3 billion people, which is more than any other country in the world. It covers an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, China evolved from the Qing dynasty. By 1949 the Red army of the Chinese comunist party had gained control over mainland China and Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
War between North and South Korea in which the U.S. forced the United Nations to fight for South Korea and China fought for the North. The war ended on July 27, 1953. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective deffence treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in exsistence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the intergration of West Germany into Nato.
