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The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean sea to the Red sea through the Isthmus of Suez. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference also known as the Crimea conference was held from February 4-11, 1945. It was the WWII meeting of the heads of the government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. -
End of WWII
WWII was a global world war that lasted from September 1, 1939 through September 2, 1945. First Germany surrendered then Japan, ending the war on September 2nd. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name of the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas. It symbolized the efforts of the Soviet Union to block itself and it's satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
The Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations were 51 member states working together to prevent another world war. -
The Long Telegraph
(5) Practical deductions from standpoint of US policy. They received back an 8,000 word telegram from George Kennan, an embassy official, it became known as the Long Telegram. -
Presidents during the Cold War
John Calvin Coolidge - no wars
Herbert Clark Hoover - no wars
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - WWII 1939-1945
Harry S. Truman - Atomic bombing of Japan, Cold War with Soviet Union, United Nations, Marshall Plan 1948, NATO 1949, Korean War 1950-1953 -
Marshall Plan
Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. In 1947 George Marshall proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy whose purpose was to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. -
The Red Scare
As things got worsened with the Soviet Union, people belived that communist in the U.S. were selling secrets about the Atom bomb to the Soviets. -
The Creation of NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic treaty. -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover were drills that the Cold War brought home, after the Soviet Union exploded it's first atomic bomb in 1949, and saw the damage that it did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American public was nervous. -
McCarthyism
The McCarthyism era, was when hundreds of Americans were accused of being communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations, and questioning. -
The Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. The North Korean army wit Soviet tanks quickly overran South Korea, then the United States came to help South Korea. -
The Rosenbergs
They were a couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians, and they were executed. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance established in May 14,1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was, Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a countrycould request American economic assistance and/ or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 Incident was when CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers, was on a secret mission. Which was to fly over denied territory deep inside Russia, but was shot down by Soviet airspace.
