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Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference when President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and British prime minister Winston Churchill had a meeting. They agreed to require Germany's surrender. They also promised "the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905." Stalin then broke his promise by installing governments commanded by the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Declaration
Berlin Declarationv The four commanders signed three different documents for the future to take away and conquer Germany. They wanted to for Germany to surrender. The city was then divided into four sectors called the Allied Kommandatura. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference Jospeh Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, and Winston Churchill was the last meeting with the Big Three. The meeting was for an agreement to end World War II. Truman and Churchill wanted peace but Stalin wanted to define the Polish-unit. -
North Vietnam
Source Ho Chi Minh wanted to fight for Vietnamese independence. The French attacked South Vietnam which resulted to thousands of people dead. Vietnam then got divided as South and North Vietnam. Minh organized a communist in the South, called the Viet Cong. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Iron Curtain Speech Winston Churchill had a speech talking about the U.S. and the Great Britain for "organizing and policing the postwar world." He did this so he could talk about the special relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain. Joseph Stalin thought that Churchill's speech was rasicm. -
First Indochina War
Source This was between the French forces and Viet Minh, Pathet Lao, and Khmer Issarak Communist Rebels. Also, the U.S. and Great Britain had supporting the French side. The communist won victory in China in1949. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan made thee European people have confidence in the economic future. It was also a speech for Secretary of State George C. Marshall who said this speech on June 5, 1947. This speech made the Soviet Union view the plan as a way to interfere other states, so immediately the Soviets didn't go to Poland and Czechoslovakia. -
Containment Policy
Containment Policy An article of "containment" towards the Soviet Union. It also stated that the U.S. should take steps to prevent Soviet expansion. The Containment Policy was for two things. One was the approach of thee military and the other was economics. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade It was an attempt by the soviet union to have the ability over France, U.S. and Great Britain to travel their sectors to Berlin. Soviets got out of the Allied Control Council and ten days later, German guards slowly entered Berlin. 272,00 flights went to Berlin delivering suppiles. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift The planes of England and wenstern Germany landed in Berlin. It was to provide food, clothing, water, medicine and other things for to million citizens. The American airlift backfired against the Russians by technological superiority. -
NATO
NATO NATO, also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was made by the 12 nations: U.S., Great Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Itlay, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. It was provided for slef defense against the Soviets. Later Greece, Turkey, and West Germany joined. -
Second Red Scare
source The Red scare had led actions that effected the U.S. government and society. Federal employees determine where they are loyal to the government. "The climate of fear and repression linked to the Red Scare finally began to ease by the late 1950s." -
Korean War - American Involvement
Source North Korea suprised South Korean army and headed to the city capital, Seoul. The U.S. went to assist South Korea. The United States and South Korea marched in North Korea. It was a bloody war. -
Eisenhower Presidency
Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower had led the "massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day (June 6, 1944)." Then he ran for President. He served two terms as President. Also, he managed the Cold War tensions. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. He had to rise the power in the Soviet Union. After Stalin died, Nikita became the next dictator. -
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Source The happy couple, Julius and Ethel were both arrested for spying on a top secret information for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. April 5, 1951, they went sentenced to death. Einsenhower believed that the couple have killed many people. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact Soviet Union and 7 European places had signed a treaty which was the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact also included Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. It was use to defend of any member attacked by some other force. -
Hungarian Revolution
source Khruschev had an attack on Stalin and the Hungarians. The Hungarians expected more for Rakosi to resign. -
Suez Crisis
Source Israeli forces pushed Egypt toward the Suez Canal after the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Israelis then joined the French and British forces. Then the Britsh, French and Israeli governments then left the troops. -
Sputnik
Sputnik "Space Age" or "Sputnik" was the name of the first artificial satellite. It transmitted radio signals back to Earth. The U.S. used this to listen as the Soviet spacecraft passed over. The U.S. government military, and scientific community didn't expect the Soviet technological achievemnet. -
Cuban Revolution
Cuban Revolution Cuban dicator named Fulgencio Batista went into the island nation. Fidel Castro made the U.S. fear his goals on attacking the U.S. Batista and his supporters fled Cuba. Thousands of Cubans were happy and celebrated the end of the dictator's regime. -
U2 Incident
U2 Incident The U2 was a spy plane to shoot down the Soviet Union. When a plane gets shot down, it has a self destruct mechanism and was to detroy the where it is at and the pilot. Krushchev kept one of the pilots alive and waited for Eisenhower to say that the plane was a spy plane. -
Kennedy Presidency
Kennedy John F. Kennedy was the youngest and forst Catholic man to be elected President, He promised Americans that there was going to be a change in situations and exploring options. Kennedy was worried by the Bay of Pigs failure then having a meeting in Europe with Khrushchev. -
First Man In Space
Source The aircraft was called Vostok 1 and the pilot was named Yuri Aleksyevich Gagarin who became the first person to make it on the moon. Also, there were more times were Soviets made it to the moon. Gherman Titov spent more than 25 hours in space. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs Bay of Pigs began when a trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and commands to have a communist government to Castro. The pla was to take away the ralling point for Cuban citizenry. The plan fell apart and had rapid attacks to Castro's military. Over 100 attackers were killed and 1,100 were captured. -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall East German authorities built a wall to close the acess to the West of Berlin. 2,000 East Germans that crossed into the West very often. East Berlin people could not go into West Berlin or else, they would be killed. -
Checkpoint Charlie
Source The U.S. and Soviet Union tanks confronted eachother and divided Berlin and two superpowers and came closer. British and French Allies had failure to the building of the Berlin Wall. -
JFK Assassination
JFK Jacqueline and John Kennedy waved to the crowd at the parade. Their vechile passed by the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., then Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots and hit Kennedy in the dhead. He was then dead minutes later at the age of 46. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution This resolution gave an approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. The military had planned an atack in the North but President Lyndon B. Johnson and advisors feared that the public wouldn't support the expansion of the war. Forces had taken control of half of South Vietnam. -
Vietnam war - American Involvement
Vietnam War Forces attacked South Vietnam and controlled Binh Gia. Americans were killed and wounded during the war. U.S. Navy fighter bombers were to attack military just inside North Vietnam. -
Apollo 1
Apollo 1 This was a test to launch a space ship in space. The atronauts were Virgil Grissom, Mercury and Gemini, and Edward H. White. Astronauts have died trying to go to the moon. For example, Roger B. Chaffee died preparing his first flight to space. -
S.A.L.T. I
S.A.L.T. S.A.L.T. stamds for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. This is when the U.S. and the Soviet Union had their first agreement to place limits of their armaments. Strategic weapons had been included to the U.S. and the Soviet Union for general disarmament. -
Prague Spring
Source Antonin Novotny was the ruler of Czechoslovakia was the first secretary by Alexander Dubcek. Dubcek wanted to establish "communism with a human face." The Soviet Union then answered his reforms of invading Czechoslovakia by 600,000 Warsaw Pact troops. -
Nixon Presidency
Nixon Richard Nixon was the 37th U.S. President and is known for the only president to ever resign from office. His achievements were ties with China and the Soviet Union. Also, having the U.S. troops leave the war in Vietnam. -
Detente
Source Detente is a name for a period of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The countries would've gained trade by it increasing and the danger of the nuclear warfare. Brezhnez had no wish to see his rivals that were next to him -
Yom Kippur War
Source Egytian and Syrian forces were hoping to win back their territory from Israel. Then they soon attacked Israel and now have a holiday on the Jewish calendar. -
Fall of Saigon
Source The Communist of the north vietnamese and Cong forces had captured South Vietnamese people. This is what almost ended the Vietnam War. North Vietnam were very sneaky when invadeing South Vietnam. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Source Iranian students had stormed the Americans and had over 60 American as hostages. The hostage was a "ramatic way for the student revolutionaries to declare a break with Iran’s past." -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Source Chinese troops go through the center of Beijing and kill/arrest protestors. Chinese students protested for greater democracy for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders. Chines troops fired at these protestors. Some fought back or ran away. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall On November 9, 1989 at 7 p.m. there was a saying that the border would be open. East Berlin and West Berlin people both destroyed the wall down into pieces. This was a happy moment for them. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Source The Soviet flag went to the Kremlin in Moscow. They declared to establish a Commonwaelth of Independent States. Gorbachev was disappointed of his nations and resigned from his job on December 25. -
Tet Offensive
Source North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces made the Tet Offensive. The U.S. and South Vietnamese forces could hold off the Communist attacks. The North Vietnam achieved a victory with the Tet Offensive.
