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Yalta Conference
Yalta decided the post-war status of Germany. The Allies of World War II (the USA, the USSR, Great Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. The Allied nations agree that free elections are to be held in all countries occupied by Nazi Germany. In addition, the new United Nations are to replace the failed League of Nations. -
Contaiment
The containment policy was a US foreign policy aimed at preventing and restricting the spread of Communism, it was sparked by several political moves by the Soviet Union to further expand their Communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. The policy was first implemented by George F Kennan in 1947, its main objective to stop the fall of “the domino” effect, which represented the possible falling of all countries surrounding Russia to Communism. Saying that if one cou -
Marshall Plan
Post worl war 2 europe still ravaged by war trauma was susceptible to a communist threat. On the 5th of june 1947, the Secretary of State George C. Marshall issued a call for a comprehensive program to rebuild Europe. Due to the threat and fear a communist threat imposed on Europe, congress passed the econnomic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved finding that would eventually rise to over 12 billion for the rebuilding of western europe. Marshall Plan nations were assisted greatly in their -
Blockade of Berlin
Berlin Blockade was the attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. It was a response to containment and the issueing of the marshall plan strategy across western Europe by the US -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It seperated the communists in the Eastern part of Berlin from the non-communists in the western side and predominantly blocked the people from the communists area from leaving, mostly because they didnt want the communist people to see how they rest of the world were living (which was a better life then them). The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.The Berlin Wall was about 168 km -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Crisis was A thirteen day deadlock in October 1962 because of the setting up of Soviet missiles armed with nuclear force on Cuba, which is ninety miles of the shores of the United states. Following the news of the nuclear threat, plenty of people feared that the world was close to a nuclear war. Catastrophe was evaded as the United States arranged with the leader of the Soviets Nikita Khrushchev’s to eliminate the Cuban missiles and therefore promised to not occupy and invade Cuba.
