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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference took place in a
Russian resort town in the Crimea from
February 4–11, 1945, during World War
Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph
Stalin made important decisions regarding
the future progress of the war and the
postwar world.
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WW2 Ends In Europe
Nazi Germany surrendered on May 7th
1945 thus bringing World War Two in
Europe to an end. On May 6th General
Alfred Jodl arrived at General Dwight
Eisenhower’s temporary headquarters a
small schoolhouse in Reims, France to
sign the surrender document.
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Hiroshima Bombing
On August 6, 1945, during World War II
(1939-45), an American B-29 bomber
dropped the world’s first deployed atomic
bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the
city and immediately killed 80,000 people;
tens of thousands more would later die of
radiation exposure. Three days later, a
second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on
Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000
people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito
announced his country’s unconditional
surrender in World War II in a radio
address on August 15, citing the
devastating power of “a new and most
cruel bomb.”
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Potsdam Conference
The Big 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. After
the Yalta Conference of February 1945,
Stalin, Churchill, and U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt had agreed to meet
following the surrender of Germany to
determine the postwar borders in Europe.
Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945, and
the Allied leaders agreed to meet over the
summer at Potsdam to continue the
discussions that had begun at Yalta.
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First East European Communist Gov.
By the end of the 1950s, it looked to all
the world as if Eastern Europe were safely
back in the Communist fold. The
Hungarians were still stunned by the
defeat of the revolution; the irascible Poles
were finally subdued; the Czechs were
laboring under the most severe repression
since the death of Stalin; the Rumanians
and the Bulgarians seemed, as usual, to be
bearing their yoke with docility; the
Albanians were too few, too far and too
inconsequent to deserve the world's
solicitude.
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Communist Seize Power in Poland
Soviet success in liberating Poland began
an entirely new stage in Polish national
existence. With the reluctant blessing of
the Allies, the communist-dominated
government was installed in 1945. During
the next seven years, Poland became a
socialist state modeled on the Soviet
Union.
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Berlin Airlift
After World War II, the Allies partitioned
the defeated Germany into a Sovietoccupied zone, an American-occupied
zone, a British-occupied zone and a
French-occupied zone. Berlin, the German
capital city, was located deep in the Soviet
zone, but it was also divided into four
sections. In June 1948, the Russians who
wanted Berlin all for themselves closed all
highways, railroads and canals from
western-occupied Germany into westernoccupied Berlin.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO was the first peacetime military
alliance the United States entered into
outside of the Western Hemisphere. After
the destruction of the Second World War,
the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild
their economies and ensure their security.
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Soviet Union’s First Atomic Bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in
Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully
detonates its first atomic bomb, code name
"First Lightning." In order to measure the
effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists
constructed buildings, bridges, and other
civilian structures in the vicinity of the
bomb.
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Communist Win Chinese Civil War
The victory of the Chinese Communist
Party over the reactionary power of
Chiang Kai-shek, its occupation of the
entire Chinese mainland, and the
establishment of the “People’s Republic”
(or the “People’s Democratic
Dictatorship”) has marked a great and
even a monumental change in modern
Chinese history, and has also caused
profound changes in the Far East and in
international relations
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U.S and other U.N. Forces fight North Korean
forces
Just two days after communist North
Korean forces invaded South Korea, the
United Nations Security Council approves
a resolution put forward by the United
States calling for armed force to repel the
North Korean invaders. The action
provided the pretext for U.S. intervention
in the conflict and was the first time the
Security Council had ever approved the
use of military force.
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U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Iranian Gov.
One of the best known covert actions of
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was
its role in the 1953 overthrow of the
Iranian government headed by Mohammed
Mossadegh and the subsequent installation
of the Shah in to power. While it is true
that the coup was successful in large part
due to CIA money, materials and strategy,
it is also true that the CIA did not act
alone.
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U.S. sponsored coup overthrows Guatemalan
On May 23, 1997 the CIA released several
hundred formerly classified documents
pertaining to the United States
involvement in the 1954 coup in
Guatemala. Although representing only a
fraction of the existing government files,
these records nonetheless revealed the
determination of the CIA to prohibit the
spread of communism to the nations of
Latin America during the Cold War.
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
In September of 1954, the United States,
France, Great Britain, New Zealand,
Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and
Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization, or SEATO. The purpose of
the organization was to prevent
communism from gaining ground in the
region. Although called the “Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization,” only two
Southeast Asian countries became
members.
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Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its
European satellites sign a treaty
establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual
defense organization that put the Soviets in
command of the armed forces of the
member states.
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First Summit meeting between Dwight Eisenhower
and Premier Nikita Khrushchev
In the wake of the Soviet downing of an
American U-2 spy plane on May 1,
Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev lashes
out at the United States and President
Dwight D Eisenhower at a Paris summit
meeting between the two heads of state.
Khrushchev's outburst angered
Eisenhower and doomed any chances for
successful talks or negotiations at the
summit.
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Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution
On November 4, Soviet tanks rolled into
Budapest to stop Hungary's movement
away from the communist bloc. Vicious
street fighting broke out, but the Soviets'
greater power insured the doom of the
rebels. After the deaths and injuries of
thousands of Hungarians, the protests were
finally put down. Nagy was captured
shortly thereafter and was executed two
years later.
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