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Potsdam Conference 1
The Potsdam Conference, 1945, was when the three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Potsdam Conference 2
It happened when the war was ending.some of the effects were that Germany was divided into four occupied zones, allied countries could take reparations from the zone they occupied. Poland, given the part of Germany, last conference call was where everyone was able to work together division between Soviet and US. -
Yalta Conference 1
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. -
Yalta Conference 2
Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.Aug 5, 2014 -
NATO 1
: The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the European continent that had taken place since World War II. -
NATO 2
This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War. If NATO wasn't formed it would've become more likely that the USSR and Warsaw Pact would use force to cause more countries to adopt Communism. -
Korean War 1
North Korea invaded South Korea.The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, with assistance from the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards.First, it pulled young people off the farm, albeit at much lower levels than during World War II. -
Korean War 2
The war provided a dramatic, though temporary, spike in farm incomes as demand for food to support the troops increased. The war also increased the government's commodity support payments to farmers and shrank the glut of over-produced farm products that had been stockpiled by the Commodity Credit Corporation in the late 40s. After the war, farm prices came under pressure by consumers demanding lower food prices. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation from October 15 to October 28, 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the positioning of nuclear missiles in Cuba. In 1962, the Soviet Union secretly placed nuclear tipped missiles on the Communist led island of Cuba. Khrushchev, in fact, had never considered that the presence of missiles in Cuba would be deemed a monstrous threat in the United States. -
Vietnam War 1
The N Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then the US, and later against S Vietnam. American military advisers arrived in what was then French Indochina. Vietnam War, a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of N Vietnam and its allies in S Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of S Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Vietnam War 2
The most immediate effect of the Vietnam War was the staggering death toll. The war killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians, 1.1 million North Vietnamese troops, 200,000 South Vietnamese Troops, and 58,000 U.S. troops. Those wounded in combat numbered tens of thousands more. -
Suez Crisis 1
The catalyst for the joint Israeli-British-French attack on Egypt was the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in July 1956. The situation had been brewing for some time. One result of the Suez Crisis was that the esteem of Great Britain was never quite the same again. It was clear that the two world superpowers at the time were the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Suez Crisis 2
This was the Cold War and when something had an impact on the interests of the United States and the Soviet Union, they were going to get involved and assert their power. The Suez Canal had strategic and economic impact for both the Soviet Union and the United States. It was in both of their interests to keep the canal open. -
Space Race/Sputnik
Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. The success of the impact had a major impact on the cold war and the United States. Fear that they had fallen behind led U.S policy makes to accelerate space and weapons program. -
Glasnost/Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform. When Mikhail S. Gorbachev stepped onto the world stage in March 1985 as the new leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, it was immediately clear that he was different from his predecessors.
