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The Election Truman
Harry Truman was a Democratic president elected during WWII. He was our 33rd president, and was elected after Roosevelt's death. One of his most notable actions was calling to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus ending WWII. -
Yalta Comference
The Yalta conference occurs after WWII to determine what the allies are going to do with Germany. The allies decide to divide Germany into four occupational zones. In this they decided to have free elections in places that the Nazis occupied. But it was also decided that the United Nations was to replace the failed league of nations. -
Hiroshima
American B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. President Truman, announced that the bomb was “more than 2,000 times more powerful than the largest bomb used to date”. The devastation shocked the world and led the beginning of the nuclear age and an arms race between all nations. Official Japanese death toll at the time estimated at 118,661 civilians. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was Truman saying that the U.S was going to be the world police. It says that the U.S will send help and money to an y country that is being attacked or going to communist. -
the Berlin blockade
the Berlin blockade the one of the first acts of the cold war. The soviets put up the wall to try to get rid of the allies. The soviets said will take down the wall if the allies leave the other half of Berlin -
N.A.T.O
The N.A.T.O stands for North Alliance Treaty Organization. the purpose of the organization is to say to attack another country with a war head is to attack all countries. -
The Warsaw pact
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria signed The Warsaw Pact. The pact tried to state that no power would interfere with internal affairs, but in reality the Soviets controlled the pact completely. The pact was named after where it was signed in Warsaw. -
McCarthyism
McCarthy dabbled in unsuccessful law practices, and indulged in gambling along the way for extra financing. Despite being a Democrat early in his political years, he switched into the Republican Party after being overlooked as a candidate in the Democratic Party for district attorney. He had taken the new scare which was the red scare and accused people of government positions to commies. This was adopted as McCarthyism by the public and started a fear campaign to accuse anyone of be a communist -
Korean war
The Korean war started with the communist north Korea invading the south Koreans. The United states came to the south Koreans aid. this was in hope to save Korea from a fully communist country. -
1st Detonation of a Hydrogen Bomb
The USSR had just tested the very first successful Soviet atomic bomb. The U.S saw this and decided that we needed to show the Soviets something better. We decided to show off the hydrogen bomb. There was debate on whether or not we should use and if it was to dangerous to humanity, but we decided that it was important to beat the Soviets. The leading scientist Lewis Strauss developed the hydrogen bomb and tested it on November 1, 1952 -
Stalin dies
Soviet leader Josef Stalin died of a heart attack in Moscow, ending his 30-year reign on power in the Soviet Union. Stalin's death brought on a power struggle for the position he held. between the eight senior members of the Presidium they fought for the power that Stalin had once owned. In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev defeated his potential rivals in the Presidium, and became the general secretary of the committee. -
Treaty of Rome
The Treaty of Rome was signed by Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. the treaty created the European Economic Community, a common market and customs union. out of this the European Atomic Energy Community was created. Which was dedicated to to making a peaceful atomic energy that can be used in more productive ways to power the community. -
space race
the competition to build a rocket and launch to the moon began. The U.S and soviets had a technological arms race to see who could get to the moon first. But in the end the U.S beat the Russians to the moon. -
U-2 Incident
The U.S had been sending spy planes over the USSR for quiet some time during the cold war. The president Dwight D. Eisenhower was stopping the spy places but was pushed by his cabinet to send one more spy plane out. A U-2 spy plane manned by pilot Gary Powers. While over the USSR the plane was shot down and the pilot captured. The U.S immediately tired to cover this incident up but there was no use the USSR now knew we were spying on them. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion into Cuba undertaken by the a group called Brigade 2506. This group was a CIA sponsored paramilitary group who were hired to overthrow Fidel Castro to trey to kill an increasingly communist government. -
Reagan visits the wall
Former president Ronald Reagan visited the Berlin wall and gave the famous speech to the Berlin people called, "Tear Down This Wall". In this speech he asked the leader of the soviet union to take down the wall separating the two half's of Berlin. A little while after this speech the soviet leaders tore down the Berlin wall allowing the people on Soviet side of Berlin to be free. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was in response to the bay of pigs incident. It was a deal made between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro to build missile silos in Cuba to be closer to the U.S. The U.S did not like that the soviets were now on a missile launch range of 90 miles off the coast of the U.S. In response the U.S made a military blockade making it so that the soviets could not bring in more missiles. This lead to a tense negotiation that lead to the dismantling of the missiles in Cuba. -
strategic arms limitation talk
The U.S and Soviets meet for negotiations to end the cold war. These negotiations were referred to as S.A.L.T. These agreements went into two rounds. At the end of these agreements the two cold war superpowers (U.S and Soviets) agreed to limit the missiles. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
In 1979 the Afghans were attacked by soviet forces. Which lead the U.S to take full control over the afghans attack. This lead to a war between the Afghans and the Soviets and the U.S boycotting the Olympics. -
Reunited Germany
When the soviet union started to dissolve the communist party in east Germany start to wane. Tens of thousands of citizens started to flee east Germany which was the first step to the reuniting of Germany. in 1989 the Berlin wall started to come down.
