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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between the three most powerful leaders of the world at that time. Winston Churchill from Great Britain, Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union, and FDR from the U.S. The goal of this meeting was to discuss Europe's regrouping after WW2.
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Harry S. Truman began his presidential term
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After the Potsdam Conference, Germany submitted to uncondtional surrender. The country was split into four quadrants, Fance in the Southwest, Britain in the Northwest, U.S. in the South, and Soviet Union in the East.
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Potsdam Conference was between the Big 3, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman. This meeting was to negotiate terms after WW2. (peace treaties and what not)
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George Kennan, a U.S. ambassador in the Soviet Union sent a telegram from Moscow to Washington that the U.S. needs to prevent the spreading of Communism.
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Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister, made a speech that empasized on the split between Eastern and Western Europe. This declred tension between the Soviet Union and other countries.
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The Philiippines gained independence from the U.S.
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The nation of Iran, was invaded by the Soviet Union and the British but the U.S. was neutral with the country and so the U.S. convinced their allies to retreat from Iran.
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The French land in Indochina and begins the First Indochina War. They are resisted by the Viet Minh communists who want national independence
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In an effort to strengthen ties with European Countries, the U.S. donated 13 billion dolllars to countries in need like Greece and Turkey where the war has devastated and ruined the land.
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and propsed that they would stop if the Allies took out the Deuscthe mark from west berlin.
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the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city's population
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The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy declared from president Truman that said that the U.S. would would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to create an alliance between 28 countries including, France, Britain, Hungary, Denmark, Netherlands, etc.
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Mao Zedung, a political Leader of china at the time declared the " People's republic of China" and there is a speculation that the Cold War influenced this revolution of the Chinese Communist party.
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Senator McCarthy accused hundreds of celebrities and politicians of espionage with the Soviet Union out of insecurity. The wrongly accused citizens had to endure long trials and harsh punishments for their alleged crimes
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the NSC-68 was a secret foreign policy presented to Harry S. Truman that provided a blueprint to the militarization to prevent Communsim from spreading.
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A civil war between North Korea, (who was aided by China) and South Korea (who was aided by the U.N.) North Korea was fighting for Communism, while the South was fighting for the opposite. The U,S also aided the Southern region of Korea.
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Harry S. Truman fires McArthur from the troops in Korea.
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MAD was seen as helping to prevent any direct full-scale conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union while they engaged in smaller wars around the world.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower is inagurated into office as president of the U.S.
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Greece and Turkey join NATO
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The U.S. created and tested the World's first hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union saw this and became intimitated which led them to create their own.
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The Marshall plan ends
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The United States tests their first thermonuclear bomb
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Joseph Stalin dies
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Joseph Stalin dies
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An armistice agreement ends fighting in the Korean War.
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Nikita Khrushchev is inducted to be the supreme leader of the Sovet union
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The U.S. launches the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.
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Allies end military occupation of West Germany.
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West Germany joins NATO and begins rearmament.
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The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It was just a counter to the Allies' NATO
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Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal.
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France, Israel, and the United Kingdom attack Egypt with the goal of removing Nasser from power. International diplomatic pressures force the attackers to withdraw.
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The Strategic Air Command initiates 24/7 nuclear alert (continuous until termination in 1991) in anticipation of a Soviet ICBM surprise attack capability.
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Nikita Khrushcev asks the West to leave Berlin
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Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba but doesn't officially say that the Country is Communist Just yet. Mini guerrillas are also formed in Latin America
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President Eisenhower closes the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba to shut down all relations with the communist nation
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JFK is inaugurated into the President of the United States.
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The Bay of Pigs was a falied mission from the CIA to Cuba which had the intention of shutting down Castro and his Communist style of government.
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President JFK, declares that he will put the first man on the moon.
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The Berlin Wall is built by the Soviets following the breakdown in talks to decide the future of Germany.
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The Soviet Union resumed testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.
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After the U.S. placed missiles in Italy, the Soviet Union learned news of this and retaliated by placing missiles in Cuba, (their ally)
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U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin.
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The Partial Test Ban Treaty is signed by the US, UK and USSR, prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere except underground.
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John F. Kennedy is shot and killed in Dallas, and Lyndon B. Johnson is inaugurated to the Presidency
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US President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
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US President Lyndon B. Johnson claims that North Vietnamese naval vessels had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although there was a first attack, it was later proven that American vessels had entered North Vietnamese territory, and the second attack is proved unfounded.
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Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev to become General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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US military buildup to defend South Vietnam. North Vietnam has also committed its forces in the war. US begins sustained bombing of North Vietnam
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A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II.
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Lenoid Brezhnev declared that, "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries."
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Nixon becomes president of the U.S.
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Nixon stated that "the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends," but would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world." in a speech in Guam
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Nikita Khrushchev dies
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Nixon visits China, the first visit by a U.S. President since the establishment of the People's Republic of China
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement signals the beginning of détente between the U.S. and USSR.
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Gerald Ford becomes President of the United States upon the resignation of Nixon.
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was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic
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Was the final act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe held in Finlandia Hall of Helsinki, Finland,
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Jimmy Carter becomes president
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, sign the SALT II agreement, outlining limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons.
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the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) to violently oust the dictatorship in 1978-79