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Yalta conference
The three leaders of the U.S., G.B., and the U.S.S.R. came to Yalta in Russia to discuss about the war. They talked about the U.S.S.R. joining in the fight on the Pacific front against Japan and the future of Germany. -
United Nations
A co-organization for keeping international peace around the world with over 193 countries joined in it. It also had developed many different councils established within, some are: Security, economic, social, and trusteeship. -
A-Bomb Tested
The first a-bomb that was first ever used and was successfully tested was in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Brigadier-General Leslie R. Grove was in charge of the project to command other great minds. It was originally going to be a $6,000 budget but they were afraid that the Germans were building a uranium bomb, and so it costed about $2,000,000 in the end to make this deadly project happen. -
Potsdam Conference
Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met together in Germany in Potsdam to continue discussing things from the previous conference, Yalta conference, and on some new subjects. The Soviets had pressed heavy reparations for German and didn't want what happened with the Treaty of Versailles. They disarmed the German army and demilitarized them, and they were going to make Germany a democratic country. -
A-Bomb dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
The U.S. had deployed the first atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 80,000 people instantaneously and destroying over 90% of the city. Three days later when Japan still refused to surrender war, the U.S. deployed the second and final bomb on Hiroshima, killing over 40,000 people and devastating the country. Emperor Hirohito surrendered on August 15 from radio. -
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
Winston Churchill came to the U.S. and gave a speech about the "Iron Curtain", though he wasn't the prime minister anymore , he was still invited. U.S. officials had warmly received the speech but disliked that Churchill said that the U.S. and Great Britain had a "special relationship." -
Truman Doctrine
Truman had set this up to help all democratic nations that have been affected by external or internal authoritarian forces. Truman had slo decided to help Greece who had Britain's aid in defending off the civil war against communism, Truman also helped Turkey who had previously been helped by Britain. -
Marshals Plan
This plan helped 16 nations, including Germany, European countries received about $13 billion in aid. Some of the things were shipped from the U.S. was machinery, food, staples, and fuel to help supply them. -
Berlin Blockade
West Berlin, Russia's side, was blocked off and cut all support for that side of the capital and the U.S. and Britain went and flew airplanes to give the people within the walls supplies. Nearly 700 aircrafts, about 100 of them civilians, were used to bring the supplies over to them with over 321 days and 272,000 flights made to Berlin. -
NATO
NATO was made for three reasons, discourage the Soviet Union from expanding their borders, encouraging Europe to change to a political integration, and forbidding national militarism. The North Atlantic treaty was signed by a U.S. minister. -
Communist Revolution in China
The Chinese at the time were fighting the Japanese when the communist party had taken over and befell the origins nationalist government. Before that, there was the war between communist and nationalist going on for several decades, and finally when they needed to focus most their resources on Japan, the communists overthrew them from their building supporters over the years. -
Korean War
This was considered the first act of the Cold War when over 70,000 troops have crossed over the border of the 38th parallel. The U.S. had intervened but the officials were concerned that we have gotten ourselves into, against the international communism. Korea is separated still to this day. -
Hydrogen Bomb
The U.S. was the first to create and test the thermonuclear bomb, also known as the hydrogen bomb, it was tested at Eniwetok in the Pacific. In a race agains the Soviet Union in the nuclear race, the U.S. was slightly ahead and made the hydrogen bomb, it was 1,000 times more powerful than the original nuclear devices. One of the fathers of the nuclear bomb also helped create the hydrogen bomb, his name was J. Robert Oppenheimer. -
SEATO
Called Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, only two southeastern Asian countries joined, it was created to prevent the spread of communism. Most of the SEATO members are located in other corners of the earth but has taken an interest in Asian affairs. -
Warsaw Pact
The pact was signed by Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, they were able to call upon any of those countries for help if assaulted by an outside force from those who signed it. NATO tried to make Germany apart of their group and the Soviet Union responded with the Warsaw Pact. It all ended in 1991, Albania wasn't with the Warsaw Pact when it had ended. -
Sputnik
"Sputnik", a Russian word is translated to "satellite" in English. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite laid in orbit around the Earth by the Russians. It was able to circle the earth once every hour and 36 minutes, which is about 18,000 mph, it's weight was 184 pounds, diameter 22in. At certain parts of its orbit, you would be able to see Sputnik with binoculars alone in the sky. Eventually, Sputnik ended up burning up in the atmosphere and the Russians were expecting it. -
Vietnam War
It was South Vietnam against the North Vietnam, or the Viet Cong, the north was aided by the Soviet Union, the north was communist the south was democratic and was aided by the U.S. More than 3 million people had died from the war, nearly half was civilians and around 58,000 casualties from the U.S., and at the peak of the war for the U.S. had half a million troops there.. -
Bay of Pigs
The U.S. had sent 1,400 American trained Cuban exiles and sent them to Cuba to overthrow Castro, who had previously overthrown President Fulgencio Batista, who the U.S. had a good relationship with. Castro was opposite of him, for he opposed the U.S. involvement and interests in Cuba. Almost as soon he came to power, he tried to reduce American influence in Cuba, and made a diplomatic agreement with the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Wall Built
It started out as a barbed wire fence in which was replaced with concrete, and when the Soviets did that, it also cut trade with West Berlin. The wall was taken down in November 1989, many people who was dissatisfied with communism had moved to West Berlin, over 2.5 million Eastern Germans moved to Western Germany, over 2,000 crossed everyday. -
Cuban missile Crisis
It was a 13 day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, when the U.S.S.R. had installed nuclear weapons in Cuba. There an agreement between the two countries that if the Soviets remove their nuclear weapons from Cuba that the U.S. can't invade Cuba, and also the U.S. would have to withdraw their nuclear weapons from Turkey.
