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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was a meetting between the allied leaders : Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. This conference took place in the Crimean Pennysula . The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. The Yalta Conference agreed to divide Germany into zones controlled by the allies . Poland was given back its independence . Yugoslavia was given its own goverment . -
FDR dies
After 12 years of predencicy president Franklin .D Rooselvet died. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage (leading to stroke) in Warm Springs Georgia at the age of 63. FDR succesfully lead his country through WW2 , the great depression . He is to be one of the best presidents America has had. -
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Nuremberg Trials
It was the first trial against humanity after the Holocaust . Many of the top offenders such as Hitler commited suicide . Many Nazis defended themselves as they were following orders form tehir authorities . The trials caused many Nazis to flee the country , but Nazi hunters came along to put justice. The Nuremberg trials resulted in 24 executions, 128 imprisonments and 35 acquittals. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
This came to symbolise the beginning of the Cold War because it was the period marked by political tension and military rivalry, between the allies and the USSR. The speech he made made a speech that went against USSR and her Communist allies in public, including the usage of the term "Iron Curtain" that divided Communist and Capitalist sphere of influence in Europe. -
Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctrine is the idea that the United States would intervene, on a global basis, to prevent Communism from spreading. The central idea was called "containment" - containing the Communists in Eastern Europe. -
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The Marshall Plan
It was a program which were Amrerica aided countries in Europe recover from the war .The plan was created based upon the Truman Doctorine to avoid the spread of communism .
The United States had offered aid to the USSR, but they did not accept it . The Marshall Plan was replaced by the Mutual Security Plan at the end of 1951. -
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The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin airlift was the response of the Allies to the Soviet Union's blockade in Berlin . This event is to be concidered the first major international crisis of the cold war between the Soviets and the West. The Bristish and American air force would supply Berlin in order to keep people alive from teh neglection that the Soviets were giving them . -
Creation of NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization . This was a new allience to battle against the Soviet Union . NATO also has an agreement that consist if any country outside NATO were to attack one of the countries within the allience , all of the countries within NATO would go to war to stop the threat. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was a treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This pact was created as response to the creation of NATO .Just like NATO , they had the mutual help if one of them were to be attacked the countries within the pact would help . What made this pact different was that they organzied and took control over the satelites -
Bay of Pigs invasion
This was a failed attempt of the USA military to overthrow Cuban president Fidel Castro, this was a step to abolish communism . 1300 exiles, armed with U.S. weapons, and US troops landed at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba to fight Cuban army . The invasion was stopped by the Cuban army . -
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The Berlin Wall
Germany being divide into four different parts west (allies) and left (soviets). The wall was built in order to keep the soviet powerful and avoid losing communist areas. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty was a treaty signed by the U.S., the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, which banned all tests of nuclear devices except for underground. The importance of this treaty is that it raised awareness to the dangers we present to our own communities environment when using nuclear weapons. -
Soviet Troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
Czechoslovakia slowly move away from the union, they were trying to become a democracy . On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union with nearly 5,000 tanks and 165,000 troops and an additional help from allies of the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union tried claiming that they had been invited to try to preserve socialism, but the Czechoslovakian people showed, by protesting in the streets, that they were not welcome. Some of these protests turned violent as some protesters were kil -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 was the first space craft to carry people to the surface of the moon. This was a victory for the US , eversince it was a race between them and the Union to see who got to the moon first. It was a win for democracy because it showed supremecy to te USSR . -
SALT I Treaty signed
The SALT I treaty being signed meant that any US or Soviet weapons system capable of reaching the territory of the other side was considered strategic. -
Independence of Hungary
The Hungarian party turned into a communist party, and renamed themselves. The new name of the party was the Hungarian Socialist party. For the first time in decades, the government decided to declare the Revolution of 1948, a national Hungarian holiday. People apposed to this, flooded the streets, with almost 75,000 occupants. The first free parliament election, for Hungary was held in 1990, was chosen as communism.
