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Yalta/Potsdam Conference and Division of Germany
The Conference was to make peace in Germany. The conference was located in Yalta, Ukraine. The people, "The Big Three", at the conference were US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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Truman Doctrine and Communism in Greece
The Truman Doctrine was a US policy whose purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical growth during the Cold War. It was announced in Washington DC. He pledged to not let communism get to Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an initiative to aid Western Europe after WW2. It was signed in Harvard University, US. It was signed by Secretary of State George Marshall. They wanted to aid Europe because most of the countries were allies. -
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The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the stopping of ground import and trade from the Soviet Union. They did this because they wanted to pressure the Capitalists to leave East Berlin. -
NATO
NATO is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was made to replace the United Nations. -
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The Korean War
The Korean was a series of battles for the US to keep communism away from Korea and other parts of Asia. The war took place in Korea. This war is the main reason for the divide in Korea today from the Communist North the Democratic South. -
Duck and Cover Ad
The duck and cover was a position for civilians to have a better chance of surviving an atom bomb. In 1951, the FCDA decided the best way to do that was to make an educational film that would appeal to children. -
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The Space Race
The Space Race was a series of events involving launching rockets into space and getting farther in research. The main reason for the race was for power and research. The 2 countries that were involved were the Soviet Union and the US. The race ended by US landing on the moon, but the Soviet Union started it when the launched a satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. -
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The doctrine included that a Middle Eastern country could request American economic help or assistance from the U.S. military if it was being threatened. It was signed by Dwight Eisenhower. -
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Bay of Bigs
On January 1, 1959, a Cuban nationalist, Fidel Castro, drove his army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista. In the next years after the CIA planned to strike Fidel. In April 1961 the CIA launched a definitive strike. This strike didn't go as planned as the soldiers surrendered after 24 hours of fighting. This invasion took place in Cuba. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day stressful time where the Soviet missiles were installed on Cuba. Fidel Castro threatened to bomb the US, but JFK took it easy and got his way and his country out of the situation. He also surrounded Cuba in naval security and promised to protect the US at all cost. -
Detente and the Helsinki Agreement
The act was supposed to bring peace between the Soviet Union and the US. In July 1975, however, the Soviet Union and the United States tried to freshen the policy of detente by calling the CSCE in Helsinki. -
Arms Race
The Arms Race was a race between the US and USSR to develop nuclear weapons. This took place because wanted world power and the nukes were a big advantage.
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1980 Olympic Boycotts
The US boycotted the Olympics in Moscow because they didn't want the Soviets to invade Afganistan because the US didn't want communism in Afganistan. The boycotts were in Moscow. -
The destruction of the Berlin Wall
When the wall was announced to be destroyed, people rejoiced for the first time in forever. In all 171 people were killed trying to get over, under or around the Berlin Wall. The Berlin separated Berlin in half for ages. It was broken down because East Berlin's communist party announced a change in the city's relationship with the west.
