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United Nations
is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. -
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Early Cold War Events
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Yalta Conference
was the wartime 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, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in the Crimea. -
Potsdam Conference
gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlie -
Truman Doctrine
was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry S Truman in a speech stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
HUAC
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CIA
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 assessment to senior United States policymakers. Intelligence gathering is performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, many of whom are trained to avoid tactical situations. -
Marshall Plan
was the 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. -
Berlin Blockade / Airlift
the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. We responded with the berlin airlift where we flew supplise over the border. -
NATO
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
korean War
was a war between the Republic of Korea which was supported by the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -
Warsaw Pact
was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietmam War
was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States of America and other anti-communist countries. -
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Space Race
was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations which focused on attaining firsts in nuclear weapons as well as on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority. -
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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 -
NASA
is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. -
Bay of Pigs
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 invasion was launched in April 1961. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants within three days. -
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. It separated communist germany from not communist germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States during the Cold War. Russia was giving them the missiles and we were theatening back and forth -
Tet Offensive
Having lured General Westmoreland's forces into the hinterland at Khe Sanh in Quảng Trị Province,[165] in January 1968, the NVA and NLF broke the truce that had traditionally accompanied the Tet holiday. They launched the surprise Tet Offensive in the hope of sparking a national uprising. Over 100 cities were attacked, with assaults on General Westmoreland's headquarters and the U.S. Embassy, -
Man on the Moon
Niel Armstorng was the first man on the moon. When Armstrong made his proclamation, Voice of America was rebroadcast live via the BBC and many other stations worldwide. The estimated global audience at that moment was 450 million listeners, out of a then estimated world population of 3.631 billion people. -
Vietnamization
Severe communist losses during the Tet Offensive allowed U.S. President Richard Nixon to begin troop withdrawals. His plan, called the Nixon Doctrine, was to build up the ARVN, so that they could take over the defense of South Vietnam. The policy became known as "Vietnamization".
