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Yalta Confrence
soviet premier Joseph Stalin and British prime minster Winston Chruchill and Franklin D Roosevelt met in crimea to discuss the important issues of what would happen once the war ended and how to intervene while the war was still going on.They all agreed to no include France in the post war while they took control of Germany.Later Roosevelt was blamed for handing over Northeast asia and Eastern Europe to the soviets. -
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The Cold War
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Potsdam Confrence
The potsdam confrence was the last confrence held by harry truman and winston churchill and prime minister Joseph Stalin once world war 2 ended.it was basically an agreement they made to bring peace in the nations and discussed there military alliance. -
The U.S drops a bomb on hiroshima
This was kept a secret and japan was unawair that a bomb was going to destroy hundreths of thousands of homes and building.Radiation caused many people to die within weeks if they survived. Many people became prone to various types of cancers .The Bomb was dropped to stop japan from threataning the united states. -
Korean War
The war is still going on today and both the south and the north have been seperated. The North and south part of Korea were divide in between the United States and the soviet union and intervened when the war in Korea was still going on. -
The United Nations
Countries that join the United Nations were declared to maintain peace and have a safer world.The United states declared the United Nations.26 nations joined the united nations act to defeat the Axis Powers.This act proved respect of each of the nations. -
Iron curtain descends Europe
President Winston Churchill gave a speech in Fulton missouri.The term iron curtian was used to define that both the west and east were seperated as if an iron curtain was in between. -
Truman Doctorine
Truman said that he would support anybody that was being threatend by the Soviet Union.This all began when president truman was seeking aid for Turkey an Greece. -
Marshall plan
George Marshall had a plan to rebuild Europe and some parts of Russia.It also was a plan for establishing american goods in Western Europe.The Marshall plan recieved a peace prize for trying to rebuild a torn nation. -
Creation Of Israel
Was when the United states made israel the national home for the jewish people.The Palastian poeple didnt want jewish people to take there land from them due to there culture and religion. -
Berlin Airlift
two sides divided Germany half of it belonged the soviet union.were airplanes that provided aid to the allied nations.many supplys were sent from the allied nations to deliver them to the allied part of Germany. -
Formation of Nato
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. it was organization that would help back up the United States.This consisted of many nations. -
Stalin Dies
died and wanted to prevent the nazi take over his nation after seeing hundrthes of thousands of people died. -
Suez Crisis
The President of Egypt Abdel Nasser proposed to nationalize the canal.Britain and France had a conflict with Egypt which made Egypt to propose this.The SCUA Demanded to give the three nations control of the Suez Canal to maintain peace. -
Sputnik 1 and 2
were aircrafts used to detect any enemy or military attacks on the nation and the second one was built with more technology and this was involved due to spy on the political goverments. -
Nasa is formed
Nasa began when the first american aircraft was sent to space to help spy on Soviet technologies.after that many other nations began to boost up the race to space. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
a group landed on cuba to protest against fidel castro.Many people were agaisnt Cuba.The United states wanted to prevent them from using any weapons. -
Berlin Wall Constructed
After West and East Berlin were divided in 1961 the east side of Berlin began to build The Berlin wall. They also wanted to build the war to kee the allied nations out.The Westside was communist and the East Wasnt. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United State discovered that there was a Soviet base of weapons in Cuba.President John F Kennedy set off to quarintine Cuba to Prevent the entrance of any Soviet weapons.This also made the United States to remove the Missile base in Turkey. -
kennedy is assinated
He was shot during his vist to Dallas.The killer was left unknown and mysterious.many say it could have been that someone sent to kill him to become the upcoming president. -
USS Pueblo
The USS Pueblo was on the North Korean shore the North Koreans saw the USS Pueblo and started to fire their armaments. Many of the crew members were wounded.The U.S was blamed for spying on North Korea. -
Vietnam War
The United States allied the the south side of vietnam and went against the north vietnam.Agent orange was used to clear anything in its way it burned down many jungles in vietnam. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Problem with the U.S and Iran Began in 1979 when oil was found in iran.People from iran were fed up with their goverment so students went to tehran and captured 66 embassy employies.Throughout time the hostages were released and some were injured they just lived threatend and had there life controled by the Iranians. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
Many soviets supported the communist in afgahnistan and to expand communism they invaded afgahnistan.many of the nations land were taken by the soviets especially with cities of big government to strike the expantion. -
Olympics boycott
The united states would boycott the olympics if russia did not remove there military from afgahnistan.many other nations decided to boycott and if nations didnt participate there would not be an olympics. -
Chernobyl
Chernobyl was the largest plant in the world.3 explosions happend becuase workers were trying to expieriment something new.Many families had to evacuate due to the radiation that what was left after the explosions. -
Tiananmen Square
Many students protested against the democracy in china.Many tanks and troops were sent to Tianamen Square Many student were masscared due to the cause. -
Dissolving of the Soviet Union
States declared to seperate from the Soviet Union in Moscow.3 other states had declared to seperate from the Soviet Union weeks before because they wanted to be run as an independent government.
