-
Period: to
Nuremburg Trials
the Nuremburg Trials were trails in court held against the Nazi leaders after the war. Many were convicted for war crimes during the war and executed. these trails were held in the city of Nuremberg, thus giving them their name. -
Yalta Conference
The conference between the allied powers right before the end of World War II, when Germany's defeat was already assured. Allies met to decide how to divide up Europe and Japan after the war was over. The western powers feared that the Soviets would try to take over eastern and centural Europe. -
1st United Nations Meeting
teh first United Nations Meeting was held in San Francisco, California. the creation of the UN was a major American concern, because they still wanted something with more pull than the League of Nations. The new UN was given power to enforce their verdicts, in the form of an international army. -
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech
Winston Churchill made a speech in which he said that an ion curtain had descended over Europe, splitting it into two hostile states. He obviously meant the communists and the capitalists. Stalin branded the speech a call to war on the USSR. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman was scared about British weakness and hte USSR possibly expanding. The Doctrine stated that the US would financially help countries where communism was a possibility. -
Marshall Plan
US Secretary of State George C. Marshall thought of the Marshall Plan to prevent the spread of communisnby given almost $13 billiion to rebuild Europe. Marshall thought that an economy had to be weak for communism to work, so he thought that if the US helped European countrie's econmomies that they wouldn't turn to communism. -
Berliln Airlift
The U.S., Great Britain, and France wanted to make a Western Germany, with Berlin included, but the USSR didn't want that to happen so they blockaded West Berlin so that the people had no supplies or food. In response, U.S. and British planes airlifted food and supplies to the people of West Berlin. -
End of Chinese Civil War
In China, the communists won the civil war. This strengthened U.S. fears anouth the spread of communism. -
Creation of NATO
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Orginization. NATO is a treaty signed by many countries (including the U.S.) promising to provide mutual help is one of them is attacked. -
Soviets Detonate Atomic Bomb
When the soviets successfully detonated their first atomic bomb in August of 1949, tension between the US and the USSR really started to mount, because the US no longer had an advantage over Stalin. The US no longer flet it had control of the war, and they feared a weapon that could kil millions at once in the hands of the communists. -
North Korea Invades South Korea
North Korea, an ally of the USSR and a communist country, invadad South Korea to try to take over. In response, the U.S. entered the Korean war to try and stop the spread of communism. -
Geneva Accords Divide South Vietnam
The French signed a temporary partition of Vietnam with the communists to try and keep the Us out of the war. We invaded anyway to keep South Vietnam from being invaded first, and falling to communism. -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was made six years after NATO, an alliance for the USSR. In the pact, the USSR allied itself with other communist countries. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first human made satellite tmade by Russia that orbited Earth. This scared Americans because they thought that the USSR must be ahead of the technology of America. -
Period: to
Cuban Missile Crisis
The soviets set up an army camp in Cuba, but the US considered it too much of a threat to go untouched. The first invasion at the Bay of Pigs as a total and epic fail on the part of the US. After Bay of Pigs, the US just ended up blockading Cuba to keep the nuclear missiles from getting to the base, but we didn't invade because of the nuclear threat. The reson the USSR even wanted a base in Cuba was because we had set one up in Turkey, much closer to the USSR than Cuba was to us. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
After the war, Berlin was seperated into two sides; the east and the west. the East side of the city was communist and the west side of the city was capitalist. Some east Germans rtied to escape communism by fleeing to the West side of the city, adn the communists didn't like that. They constructed a wall to keep people fro crossing the border that completely cut East Berlin off from West Berlin, sperating even families in the process.
