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Yalta Conference
was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea. -
End of WW2
15 August 1945 war in Asia ended,Japan agreed to surrender. America helped with the war. -
The United Nations
Was made to help and maintain world peace. The orginization was based in Lake Success, New York. -
Mao Zedong comes to power
was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. -
Korean War
With the surrender of Japan in 1945 the United Nations developed plans for a trusteeship administration, the Soviet Union administering the peninsula north of the 38th parallel and the United States administering the south. The north was communist so America took action in protecting South Korea. -
End of the Korean War
A ceasefire stopped the fighting on July 27, 1953. -
Beginning of Vietnam
The Vietnam War[A 3] was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron -
Tet Offesnive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968. -
Nixon visits China
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC). -
Ending of Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of saigon on april 30th 1975.
