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Big Three meet to discuss the Allied war effort against Germany and Japan and to try and settle some nagging diplomatic issues.
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Major production of nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Russia occured causing more tension and danger around the world.
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It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from joining the Soviet sphere.
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U.S. gave economic support to help rebuild European economies in order to prevent the spread of soviet communism.
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Allies supplied sectors of the city from the air.
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Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railroad, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.
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The Fall of China put more than a quarter of the world's population under communist control.
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The credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack.
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War between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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It resulted in a decesive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations.
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The hydrogen bomb is 1000 more times more powerful than conventional nuclear devices.
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Led to a temporary thaw in cold war tensions.
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Reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nations financial resources.
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The Warsaw Pact was a defense organization that put the soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.
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The AFL-CIO was made up of 57 national and international nations and represented more than 11 million workers.
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It was a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for supermacy in spaceflight capability. Both nations tried to have more security than the other.
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It was a diplomatic and military confrontation where Egypt, the U.S., Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced Britain, France and Isreal to withdrawl from the Suez Canal.
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Nationalist forces attempting to unify the country Vietnam under a communist government.
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It allowed a Middle East country to request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggresion from another state.
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The Treaty of Rome introduced the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
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Led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War.
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U-2 spy plane shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union.
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When a CIA-financed and trained group of cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.
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Cut off West Berlin from East Berlin.
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U.S. and Soviet leaders had a stand off over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
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Fought against multi-national insurgent groups called Mujahideen.
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Eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges.
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His presidency was at the height of the Cold War and he believed that the war was the product of mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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East Germany and West Germany joined back together.
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Soviet Union seperated into 15 different countries.
