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The Yalta Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met again. This time the conference was held in Yalta in the Crimea. With Soviet troops in most of Eastern Europe, Stalin was in a strong negotiating position. Roosevelt and Churchill tried hard to restrict post-war influence in this area but the only concession they could obtain was a promise that free elections would be held in these countries. -
The establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco
The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of 1 January 1942, During the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. States first established international organizations to cooperate on specific matters. The International Telecommunication Union was founded in 1865 as the International Telegraph Union. -
The Potsdam Conference
The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. In this, the last of the World War II heads of state conferences, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe. Frequently without agreement. Future moves in the war against Japan were also covered. The meeting concluded early in the morning of 2 August. -
The Army-McCarthy Hearings
After Junior Senator McCarthy placed fear into Americans with McCarthyism, the fear of communism, and charging the army for having communists he was charged by the army for seeking special treatment for his aide. The hearings wear televised for the whole nation to see. During the hearings, both sides went back and forth until June 1954. By the end of the hearings, Senator McCarthy had lost all of his main supporters which were his strongest supporters. -
The Launch of Spuntik
After the Soviet Union's successful development of the intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBM's. The soviets decided to use one of their rockets to launch sputnik into space which spread out the technology gap between the soviets and the United States.It was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960. During the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, When a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission. Then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot Francis Gary.
