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Yalta Conference
At Yalta, 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.Allied leaders came to Yalta knowing that an Allied victory in Europe was practically inevitable but less convinced that the Pacific war was nearing an end. source -
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Berlin Declaration
Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany by the Governments of the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. <a href='http://www.wikiwand.com/en/ -
Potsdam conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.source -
Vietnam Conference
After World War II and the collapse of the Vietnam's monarchy, France attempted to re-establish its colonial rule there but ultimately failed in the First Indochina War.source -
Iron Curtain Speech
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.source -
First Indochina War
The Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946 and lasted until 1 August 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South dated from September 1945.source -
The First Indochina War
The First Indochina War, fought between December 1946 and August 1954, was a struggle between the Viet Minh and the French for control of the country. In the West this conflict is usually referred to as the First Indochina War; in Vietnam it is called the Anti-French War. - See more at: http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/first-indochina-war/#sthash.DLuVu3RG.dpuf[source](http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/first-indochina-war/) -
Containment Policy
Policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.George F. Kennan, a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of containment the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war.source -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion approximately $120 billion in current dollar value in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.source -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War.During the multinational occupation of World War II Germany the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.source -
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. They believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good.source -
NATO
The United States and 11 other nations establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. NATO stood as the main U.S. led military alliance against the Soviet Union throughout the duration of the Cold War.source -
Second Red Scare
The second Red Scare occurred after World War II and was popularly known as McCarthyism after its most famous supporter, Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade, the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, asource -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.source -
Korean war- American Involvement
North Koreans invaded South Korea and A few days later, Truman ordered U.S. troops to the aid of South Korea and convinced the United Nations to send military aid as well, in what was referred to in diplomatic circles as a police action.source -
Eisenhower presidency
Republican interlude during the Fifth Party System, following 20 years of Democratic control of the White House. It was a period of peace and prosperity, and interparty cooperation, even as the world was polarized by the Cold War.source -
nikita khrushchev
Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and premier in 1958. source -
Warsaw pact
A collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.formally.Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATOsource -
Hungarian Revolution
A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and occupied Eastern Europe.source -
Suez Crisis
Named the Tripartite Aggression and the Kadesh Operation was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power.source -
Sputnik
the world’s first artificial satellite The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for satellite,was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.source -
Cuban Revolution
Armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the US-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.source -
U2 Incident
Happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.source -
Kennedy Precidency
Commonly known as Jack Kennedy or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. source -
Bay Of Pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro.source -
Vietnam war-American Involvement
South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrival (1961) of U.S. support troops source -
Berlin walls
A barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off by land West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.source -
JFK assasination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.source -
Gulf of Tonkin resoultion
Attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions.A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.source -
Salt 1
A massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. source -
Prague Spring
A period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms.source -
Nixon Precidency
President of the United States from January 20, 1969 until he resigned on August 9, 1974, the first and only president to do so, as of 2015.source -
Apollo 11
The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.
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Detente
The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente a thawing out or un-freezing at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War.source -
Salt 2
SALT II initially focused on limiting, and then ultimately reducing, the number of MIRVs. Negotiations also sought to prevent both sides from making qualitative breakthroughs that would again destabilize the strategic relationship.source -
Fall Of Saigon
Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into a socialist republic, governed by the Communist Party of Vietnam.source -
Iranian Revolution
The Shah left Iran. Shapour Bakhtiar as his new prime minister with the help of Supreme Army Councils couldn't control the situation in the country anymore. source -
Precidency of Ronald Reagan
United States presidency of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Reagan administration, was a Republican administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981, to January 20, 1989.source -
tiananmen square massacre
Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States.source -
Fall of Berlin Walls
On November 9, 1989, 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.source -
Dissolution of the soviet union
Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet statessource
