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Yalta Conference
sourceDuring WWII U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world at Yalta, Russia. All three leaders came to the conferance knowing that Allied victory in Europe was only a matter of time. Britain and the U.S.A saw the difficulty of Japan's defeat so they were determined to involve the U.S.S.R. into the war in Pacific. -
Berlin Declaration
SourceHosted by the Soviet forces was the ceremony in which 4 of the highest commanders signed surrender of Germany.on of these papers was The Berlin Declaration which was the absolute surrender of Germany. -
North Vietnam
sourceThe allied governments split the country of vietnam into two at the 16th parallel. This was done to disarm the Japanese forces that had cotrol over Vietnam. Due t this the Vietnam issue started to rise. -
Potsdam Conference
Source Near the end of WWII the Allies met again to conrinue the discussions that they began during the Yalta Conference. All three were commited to the war in the pacific. they agreed that each country thet occupied Germany could only recieve raparations from thir land. -
Iron Curtain Speech
sourceDelivered by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the intent of the speech was to strenghten the relationship between the U.S, and U,K. He talked about the communist influence over most of Europe. This speech went on to bother the Premier of the U.S.S.R. Joseph Stalin. -
Marshall Plan
SoureceThis was a plan for America to help the destructed Europe. Issued by George C. Marshal The bill was finally passed by congress in 1948. This Plan ended caused 12 billion dollars of help to Europe -
Containment Policy
soureCreated by George Kennan and totally accepted by president Truman, this policy was a way of America Fighting the war. It was Used to contain any communism inside of the states. However, its main purpose was to contain the growth of the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Blockade
sourceThis was the Soviet Unions way of blockinng the democratic countries from reaching lands that the U.S.S.R. controlled. Block ading would make it physically imposible to cross the wall because ot was heavily guarded. THis was the first major conflict of the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
sourceThe airlift was an effect of the Soviet union blocking out the Democratic part of Berlin from west Germany. They thought that this woud help cause the people to starve. However, thedemocratic govenmments came up with a plan of dropping care packages by air for the west Berlinians. -
N.A.T.O.
source Createdi 1949 NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. THis treaty contained United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. THe main goal of it was to neutralize any threats of the Soviet UNion. -
Korean War- American Involvment
SourcePresident Herry Truman called on the united army of the U.N. Not asking for permission to go to war from the cogress because it was considered "Police Action". The U.S. worked with the U.N. to help South Korea. -
Julius and Ethel Roseberg
sourceJUlius and Ethel Rosberg were charged with conspiracy THis was because they had leaked secret informaton about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Because of this, they were both excectued in 1953 by the U. S . Government. -
Eisenhower Presidency
[source](www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower)Eisenhower managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union under the looming threat of nuclear weapons. He also created the first ever Interstatal highway system in America. He also tried to Intergrate school that were segragated. -
Nikita Khrushchev
sourceFollowing Stalin's death Nikita Khrushchev Came to power as Premier. Batteling Stalin's chosen succesor he won the elections. Still he had no intetions of changing U. S. Soviet Relations -
Warsaw Pact
sourceThis was a treaty between the Soviet Union and its allies. This was kind of a answer to America's Nato. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S -
Sputnik
Source The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Those in the United States with access to such equipment tuned in and listened in awe .Americans feared more uses of the Soviets’ new rocket and satellite technology. -
Cuban Revolution
The revolution began in 1952, when former army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista seized power during a hotly contested election.Castro immediately began plotting Batista’s downfall.Castro finally got rid of Batista. And made the state into communism. -
Kennedy Presidency
source John F. Kennedy became the youngest man to hold that office. . As president, He confronted mounting Cold War tensions in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere.His assassination on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, sent shockwaves around the world -
U2 Incident
[Source](http:/http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/u2-spy-incident)An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air . President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( was forced to admit to the Soviets that the (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR. The U-2 spy plane incident raised tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War -
Bay of Pigs
[Source](www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion)the U.S. government severed diplomatic relations with Cuba and stepped up its preparations for an invasion. John F. Kennedy, maintained that Castro posed no real threat to America.Cuban leader’s removal would show Russia, China and skeptical Americans that he was serious about winning the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
[Source](www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall) Communist government East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West -
JFK Assassination
SourceBy the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign.On November 21, the president and first lady departed on Air Force One for the two-day, five-city tour of Texas.Bullets struck the president's neck and head. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
SourceThe Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War.By summer, however, rebel forces had established control over nearly half of South Vietnam. THis time the Vietnam War realy Began. -
Vietnam War - American involvement
SourceIn 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival (1961) of U.S. support troops and the formation (1962) of them U.S.the United States began air raids on North Vietnam and on Communist-controlled areas in the South. the United States and South Vietnam were unable to defeat the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces -
SALT I
SourceSoviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. Johnson therefore called for strategic arms limitations talks (SALT), and in 1967, he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met in American.While abolition of nuclear weapons would be impossible, limiting the development of both offensive and defensive strategic systems would stabilize U.S.-Soviet relations. -
Nixon Presidency
[Source](www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon) A former Republican congressman and U.S. senator from California, he served two terms as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower. He ran for the White House again in 1968 and won. Nixon stepped down in 1974, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. -
Apollo 11
SourceApollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969. It caused America to be the first ever country to land on the moon and make a succesful trip back to earth. It also was a revolutionary moment in the history of humans. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
ourcethe Treaty entered into force in 1970. A total of 190 parties have joined the Treaty, including the five nuclear-weapon States. More countries have ratified the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance. -
Nixon visits China
SourcePresident Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks.Nixon, and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger saw a unique opportunity in these circumstances—diplomatic overtures to the PRC might make the Soviet Union more malleable to U.S. policy requests -
Détente
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971. Both countries stood to gain if trade could be increased and the danger of nuclear warfare reduced. Brezhnev had no wish to see his most potent rivals close ranks against him. -
SALT II
Source The principal U.S. objectives as the SALT II negotiations began were to provide for equal numbers of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles for the sides. The completed SALT II agreement was signed by President Carter and General Secretary Brezhnev in Vienna on June 18, 1979. President Carter transmitted it to the Senate on June 22 for its advice and consent to ratification -
Paris Peace Accords
The settlement included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam. In return, the North Vietnamese agreed to release all U.S. and other prisoners of war.Both sides agreed to the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia and the prohibition of bases in and troop movements through these countries -
Yom Kippur War
SourceTaking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula.Iraqi forces soon joined the war, and Syria received support from Jordan. On October 25, an Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire was secured by the United Nations. -
Chilean coup d’état
SouceBy 1973, the Chilean Congress and Judiciary stood against Allende. They claimed that his government went against the Chilean constitution.Rene Schneider, since the general was against a military overthrow of Allende. -
Fall of Saigon
Source After the introduction of Vietnamisation by President Richard Nixon, US forces in South Vietnam had been constantly reduced leaving the military of South Vietnam to defend their country against the North. . South Vietnamese Army was not capable of withstanding the advance of the North and it was an inevitability that Saigon would fall to communist forces. -
Iranian Revolution
Source A million people took to the streets to cheer on Khomeini and denounce the Shah.Within two weeks, Khomeini had returned, replacing Iran's secular government with a theocracy ruled by Islamic religious leaders called mullahs.U.S. officials knew they had a powerful new foe on their hands in a radicalized Middle East. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Source The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah, a pro-Western autocrat who had been expelled from his country some months before, to come to the United States for cancer treatment. In response to these policies, the American C.I.A. and the British intelligence service devised a secret plan to overthrow Mossadegh and replace him with a leader who would be more receptive to Western interests. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
tens of thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square demanding democratic and other reforms. eventually joined by a wide variety of individuals seeking political, social, and economic reforms—gathered in the square. The Chinese government arrested thousands of suspected dissidents; many of them received prison sentences of varying lengths of time, and a number were executed -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Source as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. oon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
SourceIts 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.This led to gradual economic decline, eventually necessitating the need for reform. In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
