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Began when Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy and left without permission. Left with documents showing Soviets' effort to infiltrate government agencies to find out information about the atomic bomb.
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Truman - 1945 - 1953
Eisenhower - 1953 - 1961 -
Stalin and Churchill met up at Yalta to Plan the postwar world. Poland was a major issue, It was agreed that the Polish government created by the Soviets would be recognized as well as the prewar Polish government
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General Assembly with 11 members. Five countries were allowed to be permanent members of the Security Council and would also have veto power.
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Japan surrendered on board the USS Missouri.
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A message sent by George Kennan that was thousands of words long that explained his views of the Soviets.
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Churchill mentioned an "iron curtain" falling across Eastern Europe in his speech in Missouri. People remembered the term used and started to describe the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as the "iron curtain"
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Gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies.
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Harry Truman asked congress for $400 million to fight Communist aggression.
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Was created to force the U.S. to reconsider its decision to pull resources and not give Russians what they wanted, or abandon West Berlin
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Mutual defense alliance. Members of the NATO agreed to help any other member who was attacked.
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North Korean troops invaded the South because no one was happy with the separation. Both sides wanted to take over and wanted to be the only Korea
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Joseph McCarthy accused people of being communists
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after the war.
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Duck-and-cover was taught in schools to make kids feel safer even though they would not be protected from the bomb. For every person killed by a nuclear strike, four more die from fallout
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A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and satellite Eastern European Countries.
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Wanted to prevent Arab nations from working with the Soviets. We wouldn't give them the money to build the canal so they took it over.
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Eisenhower asked Congress to authorize the use of military force whenever the president thought it was necessary to assist Middle East nations resisting Communist aggression.
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President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev were supposed to meet up but one of the U.S spy planes was spying on Russia and they shot it down, the U.S lied and said it was a weather plane but they had proof we were lying
