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Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt were at the Yalta to meet with Stalin to discuss the final attack on the Germans and Japanese and the future of the post-war world.
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The cold war was the struggle between two superpowers, the United States trying to stop the spread of communism, and the Soviet Union trying to expand communism. It Started at the end of world war two and ended after the collapse of the USSR on December 26, 1991.
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it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II and broke into Central and Eastern Europe.
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The Marshall plan was a program the United States created to help Europe recover from the world war 2 damage. The U.S gave over 12 billion$ to help rebuild the western European colonies.
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One of the first major crisis of the cold war. Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China, leading the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC (peoples republic of china)
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The Korean war started because the conflict between the democratic republic of north Korea and the republic of south Korea. During this war 2.5 million lives were lost.
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Rosenberg was arrested in 1950, 2 weeks before the Korean war started.weeks before the war ended him and his wife were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage.
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The United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, let the bomb explode in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy.
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Stalin died at age 73. He suffered a major stroke on march 1st and over the next few days he died.
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The 1950-1953 Korean War ended in an armistice, with neither side able to claim outright victory.
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The conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose was to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.
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the soviet union dropped Sputnik. it was the worlds first artificial satellite.
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NASA was created by Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA stand for the national Aeronautics and space administration.It is an independent agency of the excecutive branch of the U.S federal government responsible for the civilian space program.
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was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista.
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Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. He was a senator from Texas.
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into space.
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The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA sponsored paramilitary group brigade.
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known as the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Presiden Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
