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Yalta Conference.
A meeting held which included Winston Churchill, Joseph Stallin, and FDR. It was during the ending period of WW2 and was set there to discuss how the world would operate after wartime. -
United States first used atomic bomb in war
At 8:15 a.m. a US B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. This was one of two bombs that were dropped on Japenese land. It initial drop killed 80,000 people on contact. -
Russia enters war against Japan
The joining of Russia in the war effort was decided before based on a agreement made between the nations. It was predicted to speed up the process of the Japanese giving up and stopping resistance. -
Japenese surrenders, ending World War II
This was the official and fully valid surrender of Japan to the allies. There was already a decleration of surrender submitted to the Allies on Augst 10th but fighting still continued after that August 10th surrender. This proclomation of surrender caused an uproar of soldiers so the surrender wouldn't go through. -
Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech
Delivered in the speech named "The Iron Curtain" which would go onto praise Ameirca and to propose a propsition that he thought was necessary. It asked to ask for America to ditch isolatirism and to combine with some Eastern Hemisphere Powers to help shape the world after WWII. -
Truman announces Truman Doctrine
Delivered in front of a joint session of Congress it was a doctrine to ensure that America would provide, political, economical, and military assitstamce to any democratic nation that is being influenced or pushed by any other authoritian nation. -
Marshall Plan is announced
This can also be refereed to as ERP or the European Recovery Program which would be a program to help the war torn Europe. It was based to help build back economies and raise the spirits of the European people that they could get back to where they were. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
Happened under the control of President Eduard Benes in which he allowed there to be a communist govenrment organized. Was interpretated to be an expansion of the Soviet Union ideals. -
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Berlin blockade begins
Was an effort by the Soviet union to block off France, Great Britain, and the United States from sectors of Berlin. Later had problems as people inside the border needed supplies which were later provided by the Western Allies. Was the showing of the first big clash of the Cold War -
NATO treaty ratified
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an organization put together to provide security against the Soviet Union. It was a military forced compacted to keep the peace in the World. -
Soviets explode first atomic bomb
Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan the Soviet Union detonated "First Lightning" aka the bomb. They incorporated animals to test what the effects would have on mammals or human like subjects. -
Mao Zedong, a communist, takes control of China
Mao Zedong created the People's Republic of China (PRC) which would cause the end of the civil war that was between a communistic party and a nationalistic party. This led to the end of United States relations with the PRC for a long time. -
Warsaw Pact
A pact signed by the Soviet Union and seve of its sattelites that states the Soviet Union has control of the member states army. Was made due to West Germany joining NATO