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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the 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. The meeting was to discuss the re-establishment of Europe -
Potsdam Conference
The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war. -
Creation of the UN
The United Nations is an organization whose aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by the President Truman in a speech. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Many consider it the start of the Cold War. -
Founding of the C.I.A
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, with responsibility for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. -
Czechoslavakia Takeover
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism. The goals were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade/Airlift was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. -
Formation of NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance. NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of defense where its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any foreign party. -
The Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 was a list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment because of their political beliefs or associations, real or suspected. Artists were barred from work because of their alleged membership in or sympathy toward the Communist Party -
Joseph McCarthy Accusations
Joseph McCarthy was a politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin. McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communism. He made claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government. -
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union, in response to NATO -
Sputnik
Sputnik 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. -
Creation of the HUAC
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Founding of NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the government agency that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System -
U2 Crisis
U-2 incident occurred when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The Cuban armed forces defeated the invading combatants within three days. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was the closest there was to conflict, during the Cold War. -
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Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War. The purpose of the offensive was to utilize the element of surprise and strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed to take place. -
Vietnamization
Vietnamization was a policy of President Nixon during the Vietnam War, as a result of the Viet Cong's Tet Offensive, to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops. -
Man on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr, on Earth's Moon. -
Kent State Massacre
The Kent State Massacre involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.
