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Yalta Confrence
The Big Three Churchill (Great Britain), President Roosevet (USA), & Stalin (Soviet) at the end of World War II agreed that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to end World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) & the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe) that would be -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's way of providing economic and military help to any country at risk of beinig taken over by communistic or totaliristic ideologies -
Korean War
A conflict during the Cold War where the United States & Soviet Union supported different sides sending troop, aid, & weapons to help spread their idologies. This conflict ended in an arministic, meaning the war never offically ended. The armistice permanatly divided the country into two permanent countries North & South -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This event was an attempt of the Untied States to over throw a Communist Government that failed. The Untied States attemped to cover up their involvment by making it seem as if the incident was a revolution carried out soley by the citizens of a particular country -
Berlin Wall
The barrier created by the Soviet Union to separate East & West -
Cuban Missle Crisis
In this even the United States Administration, under President John F. Kennedy, made a decision that may have saved the world from Nuclear War -
Vietnam War
America's Involvment in this conflcit lasted nearly 20 years (1955-1975). The U.S sent over 50,000 soldiers to make sure that COmmunism would not spread throghout this counrty, however, was unable to accomplish this goal. The War was not popluar with many Americans -
The End of The Cold War
A conflict between the U.S and the SOviet Union where they rarely fought each other through direct armed conflict, but fought eachother indirectly on other lands for nearly 45 years
