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1945 BCE
The Yalta Conference
Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after Germany surrendered in return FDR, and Churchill promised user concession in Manchuria. -
End of WWII
After Hitler committed suicide Germany surrendered axis power, which lead to V.E-day in Europe. -
President Truman
Truman came in office after Roosevelt’s death. -
The creation of the United Nations
An organization formed of independent states to promote security and peace. Theses permanent countries Britain,France,China,and SU have the power of veto -
Iron Curtain
Soviets refused to make stronger commitment upholding Declaration of liberated Europe. Presence of soviet army in eastern Europe ensured pro soviet communist, with lead to the curtain separating no-communist, and communist. -
The long telegram
George Kennan , sent over eight thousand word telegrams to the state department detailing owe on the Soviet Union, policy of the U.S toward communist state. -
Marshall Plan
Western Europe faced grave problems ,political chaos, starvation,and economies were ruined, and the Marshall plan was a recovery program which would give European nations american aid. -
The Red Scare
The scare of communist came in act, governments, churches,business,unions began private efforts to find communist. Taft Hartley Act required union leaders to take oath saying their aren't communist. -
Truman doctrine
Britain could afford taking care of anti communist which is Greece and turkey , which pledge to provide the u.s military and economic. -
The Berlin Blockade/ airlift
Berlin blockade was one of the first major crisis of the world war,SV blocked western allies, dropping food from plans to eastern berlin -
The creation of nato
An alliance of Western Europe and North America states against Soviet Union and Europe allies -
Duck and Cover
After soviets began unclear testing had every scared to made a security method feel better. -
The Korean War
Their was conflict between North Korea communist and South Korea ant-communist. The United Nations helped the south and China helped the north. -
The Rosenberg
Couple who got convicted and sentenced to executions for supposedly committing espionage for Soviet Union -
Eisenhower doctrine
After Truman death he became the president. -
The Warsaw pact
The treaty binds the Soviet Union and countries of the eastern Europe in an alliance against the North Atlantic treaty organization. -
The Suez Canal
The Egyptians ationalized Suez Canal with an enterprise from British, and France letting people go go to Asia from Egypt. -
McCarthyism
This formed after the second red scare with people fearing communist in their inside groups. -
U-2 incident
When the Soviet Union Socialist RepulicS shout down American u2 spy plane in Soviet air space lead to the international crisis
