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Yalta Conference
The yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town. This Yalta Conference took place in World War 2. The U.S. president FDR, Chruchill, and Stalin were at the conference making important descisions about the post war time. The three leaders agreed to demand Germany's surrender. -
Berlin Declaration
Germany surrendered by this time. This declaration was to confirm the legal dissolution of the Third Reich and the death of Hitler. Their is no central government in Germany. This happened to so that they could talk about Germanys defeat. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three had this conference to talk about the issue on how to handle Germany. So it was to try and deal with Germany to defeat them. This happened so that Germany can be defeated by the big three. Europe dominated the Potsdam agenda, the war in the Pacific was starting up. -
North Vietnam
This was the day that Japan surrendered to the Allies. This day was proclaimed as the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam was divided into northern and southern regions. After a few years France and Vietnam went to war. -
Iron Curtain Speech
This was one of the most famous orations in the Cold War. Churchill speech is considered one of the opening volleys announced at the beginning of the cold war. It was so that Churchill could talk about how he doesn't like the Solviet Union. Truman and many other U.S. officials received the speech. -
First Indochina War
During a era in East Asia of conquest, France focused on the fortune withheld in Indochina. The French were in Indochina for a long time for centuries. The first Indochina War was a stalemate between the French and the Vietnamise from 1946 to 1950. during 1949 France set up States in Vietnam which were known as South Vietnam. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan is known as the European Recovery Program. This was to make over 13 bilion to finance the economic recovery of Europe. This Marshall Plan was from 1947 to 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery. This recovered the economy in Europe. -
Containment Policy
This policy in the West had a policy of containment toward the Soviet Union. This Containment policy would take two different approaches. One of those approaches is by military. The other approache is by economic. This proposes a program to funnel American economic aid to Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises in the Cold War. Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, roads, and canal access to Berlin. This Berlin blockade was so that France, Great Britain, and the U.S. to not be able to travel their. -
Berlin Airlift
They closed the roads and railroads so that they could keep Berlin for themselfs. The U.S. and its Allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This lasted for more than a year. This carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
NATO
This was created by the U.S., Canada, and several Western European nations. This treaty was so that they could provide collective security against the Soviet Union.The NATO was the first peacetime military alliance.The NATO stood as the main U.S. led military alliance against the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union test A-Bomb
On August 29 the Soviet Union tested their first atomic bomb. The U.S. was suprised that the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons. The U.S. was worried that the Soviet Union might bomb them and they were worried about their safety. The USSR were the people who tested the atomic bomb. -
People's Republic of China founded
Mao Zedong officially proclaimed the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. This proclaim was the climax of years of battle Mao's force and China's leader's forces. This announcement ended the costly civil war between China and the Nationalist Party . The U.S. officials in China reported a dictatorship in Nationalist controlled areas. -
Second Red Scare
The Cold War was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The threat posed by Communists in the U.S. was the Red Scare. This Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a profound effect on the U.S. governmentand the society. The climate of fear and the repression linked with the Red Scare and it began to be eased by the late 1950's. -
Korean War - American involvement
The Korean War began when some 75,000 sodiers from the North Koean army poured across the 38th parallel. The boundary between the Soviet backed the Democratic Republic of Korea to the north. The pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the cold war. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
On April 5, 1951 Julius and Rosenberg were sentenced to death by a judge.They were taken to Sing Sing prison in Ossining, New York while they waited for execution. The couple became the subject of both national and international debate. Many people thought that this was a cruel and unusual punishmant. -
Eisenhower Presidency
Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961. He won a convincing victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union. The threat of nucler weapons ended the war in Korea. Eisenhower strengthened Social Security. -
Nikita Khrushchev
After Stalin died on March 5, 1953 Nikita Khrushchev was the named secretary of the Communist Party in september 1953. The death of Stalin created a tremendous vacuum in Soviet leadership. Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union. j -
Iranian coup d'etat
The Iranian military overthrew the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran was a solid Cold War ally of the United State until a revoltion ended the Shah's in 1979. Mosaddeq went to Iran in 1951 when he then was appointed premier. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was named that because it was signed in Warsaw. THis treaty included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germant, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. This made West Germany a menber of NATO and allowed that nation to remilitarize. -
Suez Crisis
The Israeil armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal. The Egyptian president was Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in July in the same year. The Isrelis were joined by France and British Forces. This nearly brought the Soviet Union into this conflict. -
Hungarian Revolution
A spontaneous national uprising began 12 days before Hungary was viciously crushed by the Soviet Union in 1956. Thousands of people were killed and wounded almost a quarter million Hunggarians fled the country. Thosands of protesters took the streets on october demanding freedom from Soviet oppression. -
Sputnik
The Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite. The Soviet Union was the first to make a space satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the russian word "satellite". This satellite was launched at 10:29 p.m.The satellite traveled 18,000 miles an hour.This made other Country's to want to make satellite's. -
Cuban Revolution
It took multiple years and a few attempts but Castro and his band of guerillas successfully overthrew the government. The U.S. at first supported Castro but then immediately recognized the new regime. Castro went to the U.S. just after three months after coming to power. Everything changed after this revolution. -
U2 Incident
On this day the Soviet Scialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured the pilot. The pilot who got captured was named Francis Gary Powers. President Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Kennedy Presidency
JFK was the 35th president of the U.S. He was 43 and was known as the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. As president, Kennedy confronted mounting Cold War tensions in Cuba, Vietnam, and other places. He also led a renewed drive for public service. -
First Man in Space
The spacecraft was named Vostok 1. The Soviet cosmonaut was named Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and he was the first human to travel into space.The man was 27 year old became the first man to orbit the planet. He orbited Earth at an altitude of 187 miles. The spaceship had a automatic control system that flew the spaceship. -
Bay of Pigs
This invasion began when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Castro. This attack was a failure and did not work. The failure at the Bay of Pigs cost the U.S. dearly because they spent a lot on it. -
Berlin Wall
The GDR began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin on August 13. This wall was built to keep western fascists from going into east Germany. But this was to primarily to serve the objective of stemming mass defections from east to west.The Berlin wall stood until November 9, 1989. -
Checkpoint Charlie
U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other in dividing Berlin. The two superpowers came closer to kicking off a third world war then in any other cold war confrontation. The senior U.S. diplomat in West Berlin was stopped by east Germany border guards. The German border guards demanded to see the passports for the people to pass. -
JFK Assassination
JFK was assassinated while he was traveling through Dallas Texas while he was in a convertable car. While they were passing by the Texas School Book Depository Building and at that point he got shot from that building. Both JFK and Governor Connally were shot by a bullet. JfK was dead within 30 minutes. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This Resolution gave broad congessional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. Military planners developed detail designs for a major attack on the North.The U.S. military got increased in Indochina. This resolution became the legal basis for the Johnson and Nixon Administrations procecution of the Vietnam War. -
Prague Spring
Antonin Novotny is the ruler of Czechoslovakia and he succeeded as first secretary. Alexander Dubcek was a Slovak who supports liberal reforms. Dubcek introduced a series of far reaching political and economic reforms. Dubcek's effort to establish "communism with a human face" and the brief period of freedom became known as the "Prague Spring." -
Vietnam War-American involment
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong force launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in south Vietnam. The U.S. and south Vietnamese militaries sustained hevy losses before finally repelling the comunist assault. The U.S. helped Vietnam during their war so help them win the war. -
Nixon Presidency
Nixon was the 37th president of the U.S. He was the only president ever to resignfrom office. Nixon steped down in 1974 while he was half war throught his second term. A U.S. senator from California served two terms as a vice president. Nixon rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities he steped down. -
Apollo 11
On July 16 the world were watching the Apollo 11 take off. This Apollo 11 took of from KennedySpace Center with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. The comander of the space ship was Neil Armstrong. They entered into the lunar orbit on July 19 after they traveled 240,000 miles. -
SALT 1
The Soviet Union and the U.S. negotiators went to Helsinki to begin the Strategic Arms Limitations Talkes which was known as (SALT). This was so that the two nations could discusse the means to curb the Cold War arms race. This negotiation continued for three years until they signed the SALT 1 agreement which was on May 1972. -
Tiananment Square Massacre
Chinese troops wen into Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing. They arrested and killed thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The Chinese government was brutal on the assulting of the protesters. This shocked the West and brought denunciation and sanctions from the U.S. Nearly a million Chinese crowded into the central Beijing. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Pary announced a change in the citys relations with the west. At midnight that day the citizens of the GDR were able to cross the country's borders. More than 2 million people from east Berlin visited West Berlin when it wall unlocked to them. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
On December 25, 1991 the Soviet Union's flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The Soviet Union and their 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city of Alma Ata and they announced that they won't be part of the Soviet Union anymore. They declared that they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.
