WWII meeting of leaders of United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union. Leaders were Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joesph Stalin. The meeting was intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations affected by the war in Europe.
WWII allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany
Harry Truman, Joesph Stalin, and Winston Churchill agreed on a plan to reconstruct Germany
The day Japan surrendered, effectively ending WWII.
Was built to separate east and west Berlin because of their differing governments and to stop the emigration out of east Berlin.
U.S. gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control.
In this position he converted China into a single-party socialist state, with industry and business being nationalized under state ownership and socialist reforms implemented in all areas of society.
The Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, code-name First Lightning. With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device.
It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
In 1947, the committee held nine days of hearings into alleged communist propaganda and influence in the Hollywood motion picture industry. After conviction on contempt of Congress charges for refusal to answer some questions posed by committee members, the "Hollywood Ten" were blacklisted by the industry.
Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy toward the American Communist Party, involvement in liberal or humanitarian political causes that enforcers of the blacklist associated with communism, and/or refusal to assist investigations into Communist Party activities; some were blacklisted merely because their names came up at the wrong place and time
They were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war, and executed. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century.
The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment.
Was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict.
