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The Cold War
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Potsdam Conference
Was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany until August 2 1945. The meeting was held to nagotiate terms for the end of World War LL. The meeting at Pots dame was held to continue further disscusions aboout Germany that had occured at another conference named Yalta. -
Formation of the United Nations
Representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to complete charter of the United Nations. In addition to the General Assembly of all members states and a Security Council of 5 permanent and 6 non permanent members, the charter provided for all the members. The Roosevelt administraton strove to avoid Woodrow Wilson's mistake s in selling the League of Nations to the Senate. The united Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after 29 nations had ratified the Charter. -
Iron Curtain
Was the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist regions. Iron Curtain also can has been used as a metaphor since the 19th century by the former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in one of his speeches. -
Truman Doctrine
This was an international realations policy set forth by the US President Harry Truman in a speech. It stated that the US would support Turkey and Greece with economic and military aid to prevent them from getting involved into the Soviet sphere. Some people belive this was the major start of the cold war. Truman promised to the US to contian Europe and elsewhere and impelled the US to support any nation with both military and economic global policman. -
Marshall Plan
George Marshall was appointed by President Harry Truman to be secretary of state. In the months to follow leadership under Marshall a plan was crafted known as the Marhall plan. It intended to rebiuld the economies and spirits of western Europe.Because of this plan nations were greatly helped with
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Creation of Israel
David Ben-Gurion, the hed of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. Despite growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews and Despite the Department of State's endorsement of a trusteeship, Truman made the choice to recognize the state Israel. -
Berlin Air lift
Berlin was located in the soviet zone and divided into four sections. The Russians who wanted Berlin all for themselves closed highways and any other way of getting food or materials to Berlin. They thought this would make it impossible for people who livd there to get food. They thought it would drive Britian, FRance and the US out of the city. But insead of being drivin out they joined together and provided materials from the air. This lasted more than a year. -
Formation of NATO
Further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other nations to form the Noth Atlantic Treaty Organization. The soviet Union and other communist nations in eastern Euope founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. This pushed European nations into opposig camps and created the division of the European continent that had taken place since World War ll/. -
Korean War
This was a war between the Republic of Korea which was supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Rebublic of Korea. It was a result of a political division of Korea by an agreement of the victoious allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of WWll. The Korean War combinded strategies and tactics of World War l and ll. It began with a mobille campaign infantry attacks followed by air bombing raids, but became a static trench war by JUly 1951. -
Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid 1920s until death. Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Commitee in 1922. By the late 1920s he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remanded general secretary until the post was abolished in 1952 concurrently serving as the Premeir of the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Warsaw Pact or Treaty organization was formed in Warsawp Poland in 1955. The Pact was to comprise Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania, and the USSR. They wanted to form collective defense under a joint military command. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the longest war in American History. It was also known as the Second Indochina War was a cold war that occured in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The conflict was between North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam and its principal ally the united states. -
Suez Crisis
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal, initiating the suez crisis. French and British forces joind Israelis wich almost caused conflict and danmeged there relationship with the US. Later British,French, and Israeli goverments withdrew their troops. -
NASA is formed
The United State Congree passed legislation formally inaugurating the National Aeronautics and space Adminnistration. The establishment of NASA was a sign that the United States was committed to winning the space race against the soviets. Americans were shocked when in 1957 when the Soviet Union lanched the first satellite into orbit around the earth. In 1957 the United States attempted to launch its own satellite which failed, yet they had better luck in the month to follow. -
Sputnik I and Sputnik II
The Soviet Union had finally successfully launched the worlds first artificial satellite called Sputnik. It was abot the size of a beach ball and only weighed a little over 183 pounds. It took 98 minuets to orbit Earth on its elliptical path. This event also marked the start of the space age and the US USSR space reace. In the months to follow the Soviets struck again by sending Sputnik II into space with a dog! This alson created more competition between the US and USSR. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
When the usa invaded cube the united states entertred it was called the Bay of Pigs. It came under heavy fire. Cuban planes strafed the invaders sank ships, and destroyed half of the exiles air support. The usa had hoped to overthrow the leader of the revolution Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall Constructed
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire through the hesrt of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were not allowed to pass into West Berin. The wall continued to grow un size and eventuallt it consisted of concrete walls up to 15 feet high. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nucler missile sites being buil by the soviet Union in Cuba. President Kennedy did not want cuba to know he had discoverd the missles so he held a secret meeting for several days. The prsident decided to place a naval blockade around Cuba and demanded for all wepons to be removed. -
Kennedy is Assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Kennedy had been preparing for his next president campaign. He had decided he was going to run and was pretty confident in his chances. The trip to Texas was ment to put the spot light on him and so he could talk to the people of Dallas. It was thought that a man who didnt support Kennedy shot him from a window. -
USS Pueblo Incident
It was an American Elint and Signt Banner-class technical research ship which was boarded and captured by North Korea on the 23rd of January 1968. -
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferaation Treaty is commonly known as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear wepons. NPT is an international treaty whose objectives were to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It was also against wepons technology and wanted to promote cooperation in the peacful uses of nuclear energy. -
UN Resolution 2758
This stands for the United Nations General Assembly Resolution which was passed in response to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1668 which required any change in Chinas representation in the UN be determined by a two thirds vote. Thus recongnized the people rebublic of China as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations and removed the representitives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they didn't lawfully occupy at the United Nations. -
Nixon visits China
President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an Ofical trip. He was the first U.S Preident to ever visit the People's Rebublic of China since it was established in 1949. This was important because the U.S wanted to improve relations with a Communist country during the cold war. This lead to the Open trade policy in China with the U.Sand today many of our products come form China. -
Paris Peace Accords
The United states, south Vietnam, Viet Cong, and North Vietnam signed an agreement ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam in Paris. The South of Vietnam was unwilling to recognize the Viet Congs Provisional Revolutionary Goverment. The settlement included a cease fire throughout Vietnam. With this in mind the United States agreed to the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and advisors and dismantling of all U.S. bases within 60 days. In return, the North Vietnamese agreed to release the U.S. -
South Vietnam falls
In 1973 the last US military unit left Vietnam. Communist and South Vietnamese were already engaged in what journalists labeled the Postwar war. Both sides were accusing each other of violating the terms of the peace agreements. -
Salt I & Salt II Agreements
Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signing Salt agrement treaty in Vienna. These were a series of talks between the united states and Soviet negotiators which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
A angry mob of Islamic revolutionaries overran the US Embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 hostages. They were seized until they were released minuets after Ronald Regan took the oath of office as president 444 days later. This hostage crisis was the most dramatic in a series of problems facing Americns at home and abroad in the last year of the Carter presidency. This event was the most coverd story on televison and press than any other event since World War II. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
The Soviet knew that once Hafizullah Amin took power in Afghanistan there could be a civil war. They also wanted to have the winner of that war would be in their view rather than Western imperialist power. Many Afganistan's goverment who were against Hafizullah Amin had requested Soviet military help to stop Amin from becoming a dictator. -
US & soviet boycotts of the olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a packge of actions put out by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan which spurred Jimmy Carter to issuean ultimatumthat the US would boycott if the Soviet troops did not withdrw from afghanistan. It preceded the 1984 Olmpics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist-friendly countries. -
Korean Airline Flight 007
Korean air flights 007 alternative therories concerns the vaarious theories put forard dealing with the shooting down of the Korean flight. The aircraft was in route from New York, Anchorage to Seol, when it staryed into prohibitated soviet airspace and was shot down by Soviet jet fighters -
U.S. invades Grenada
In 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada and overthrew the communist goverment. In favor of a pro-western group this took place in less than two months. These tensions had become some time following the cold war. -
Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a very big nuclear accident. It occurred on the 26th of April in 1986. At the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in the Ukrain is where it occured which the building was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. This explosion lead to many deformaties amoung children and people around this area. -
Iran Contra Affair
This was also referred to as Irangate or the IranConttra scandal, which was a political scandal scandal in the U.S that came to in November 1986. During the Regan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of wepons to Iran. Some U.S officals wanted that the arms sales would secure the realease of several hostages from the U.S. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
This was a studnet-led demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received lots of support from residents of the city. It exposed many splits within China's political leadership. The protests were suppresed by leaders who orderd militsry to enforce martial law in the country's capital. Troops with tanks and guns in hand killed many unarmed civilians trying to block military advancement tword Tiananmen Square where student demonstarters had been for weeks. -
Dissolving of the Soviet Union
The Union of Socialist Republics formaly not longer existed on the 26th of December 1991. The Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Uion led to the stopping of tensions between NATO and Warsaw Pact, which had been a product of the Cold War. Some Soviets still retain close links with Russia and formed multilateral organizations to boost economic and security cooperation.
