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Yalta Conference (Jeremy) (Importance Rate: 10)

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Yalta Conference (Jeremy) (Importance Rate: 10)

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Yalta Conference was a conference that was between The Great Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The United States' President Franklin Roosevelt, and The Soviet Union's Supreme Leader Joseph Stalin, taking place in Yalta, Soviet Union, in February, 1945, focusing on settling post-war issues. Some examples are issues about Germany, Poland, and the establishment of United Nations.
Generally speaking, Yalta Conference set the tone for the post-war settlement and reinforced the principle of anti-Nazism; three leaders have reached agreements of keeping working together closely and strongly to completely destroy Nazis around the world.

Yalta Conference was hosted by the Soviet Union; the conference basically determined the existences of two superpowers after WWII: The Soviet Union and The United States. Roosevelt strongly proposed to form an organization of "United Nations". In terms of proportion, both the Soviet Union and the United States should take the same amount of responsibility for solving the post-war issues.

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August 1945-US dropped the atomic bombs(zach) 8/10 importance

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August 1945-US dropped the atomic bombs(zach) 8/10 importance

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Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made history as the U.S.A. was the first nation to use an atomic bomb in wartime.  The bomb killed up to 140,000 Japanese and injured another 70,000 in Hiroshima.  In  the Nagasaki bombing, 80,000 people died.

The U.S. is 100% at fault for the two bombing on Japan.  While the Truman says the reason was to save American lives, people speculate that the purpose of the bomb was to flex on the USSR and show off just how powerful of a weapon they had.

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June 1947-Marshall Plan(zach) 7/10 importance

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June 1947-Marshall Plan(zach) 7/10 importance

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After World War 2, Western Europe was left devastated. U.S.A. stepped in and gave the poverty filled countries $13 billion to not only help them flourish once more, but to also prevent the spread of communism.

The Marshall plan has nothing do with the USSR.  World War 2 left many nations badly wounded.  Western Europe had the shorter end of the stick and U.S.A. stepped in and helped out, not USSR.

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Truman Doctrine (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Truman Doctrine (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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After WWII, there were two major superpowers: The United States and The USSR. Both superpowers wished to have as many allies as possible. To gain more allies, president Truman announced Truman Doctrine which stated that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. Truman Doctrine was regarded as a huge threat by the Soviet Union, which also triggered the cold war.

Due to the increasingly pressing threat from the Soviet Union, president Truman decided to provide any necessary aids to those who were fighting against communists to protect allies. However, president Truman actually made this, so the United States should take the majority of the responsibility.

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June 1948-Berlin Airlift(zach) 9/10 importance

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June 1948-Berlin Airlift(zach) 9/10 importance

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Summary: British and Soviet military forces split Germany into two.  Berlin was located in the Soviet controlled Eastern Germany. The soviet military was blockading any access to allied nations via rail, road, and water. America and the U.K. responded by transporting goods to Berlin via airplane.

0/100 for USSR.

The USSR is 100% at fault. The attempt to take over West Berlin, which was a free city within East Germany caused America and the U.K. to respond accordingly by helping Berlin during the blockade.

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Est. of NATO (Jeremy) (Importance Rate: 10)

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Est. of NATO (Jeremy) (Importance Rate: 10)

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Founded in 1949, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, having 29 member countries. NATO is a truly important strategic organization between the US and other countries in West Europe and North America. The NATO provided them with a great platform to cooperate with each other militarily and strategically. The reason that the US decided to establish NATO was to form a legit league for nations that hoped to work together to counter the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Treaty Organization later. The existence of NATO allow those countries to provide backups and military aids to each other. Unlike Warsaw Treaty Organization and the Soviet Union, the NATO is still existing right now, and its headquarter is located in Brussels, Belgium.

The primary reason of the establishment of NATO was about working together to counter the pressing threats from the Soviet Union. However, United States was the one that actually started this. Thus, United States should take more responsibility for the establishment of NATO relatively.

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Chinese Revolution (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Chinese Revolution (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Oct 1949-Chinese Revolution Ended (Jeremy)

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Oct 1949-Chinese Revolution Ended (Jeremy)

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Chinese Revolution is technically a period from year of 1927 to 1949. The revolution was about to overthrow the corrupt Chinese Nationalist Government and to form a democratic, farmers and workers centered and republic government in China. The revolution was led by Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong, who later became the first president of the People's Republic of China; the revolution was countered by the Chinese Nationalists led by Chiang Kai Shek.
Due to the Japanese invasion, both Chinese Communist and Nationalist decided to fight together against the Japanese. After the victory of World War II, Chiang Kai Shek signed the October 10th. Agreement with other Democratic parties within China to agree to establish a democratic government. Later in August 1945, Chiang Kai Shek started to deny the October 10th. Agreement and launched an attack to the territories of the Chinese Communists.
During the period from 1945 to 1949, this period is the mostly referred as Chinese Revolution (Chinese 2nd. Civil War). After the defeat, Chiang Kai Shek was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan; Chinese Communists officially established The People's Republic of China and formally ended the long-lasting Chinese Revolution.

At the beginning of the war, the United States of America demonstrated a clear preference and support toward the Chinese Nationalists, providing a large amount of armored vehicles, aircrafts, weapons, and financial aids, while The Soviet Union only provided the Chinese Communists with an average amount of military equipment supply. As a matter of fact, a large number of Chinese Communist soldiers had no weapon to fight, and the only weapons they had were spoils of the Japanese.

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Korean War (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Korean War (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Korean war is also called Korean Civil war, fought between the communism Korea led by Kim II-Sung in the North and the capitalist Korea in the South. The war was started by North Koreans who wanted to invade and occupy the entire Korean Peninsula. North Korean army fought very aggressively; by August 1950, the North Korean army has taken over 90% of the territory and controlled 92% of the population. Because the United States wanted to have more allies in Asia, so the military commanders thought that it was necessary to help the capitalist South Korea. The representatives of the United States at the United Nations requested to vote for offering military aids and backups to South Korea. Later, 17 nations agreed to form a "United Nations Army" to help South Korea; General MacArthur became the general commander of the United Nations Army. After United Nations Army disembarked in Inchon, Korea, the United Nations Army swept back and went straight to the national borders between North Korea and China. Due to the request from North Korea and the threats to the Chinese national security, China assembled the Chinese People's Volunteer of a total men force of 1.9 million soldiers to help North Korea to fight The United Nations Army. USSR provided weapons, armored vehicles, aircrafts, and military aids at the same time. At the end of 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteer successfully pushed the United Nations Army back to the 38th. parallel. Both sides fought and struggled to make huge progresses for the next two years; there were a lot of brutal battles. Finally, both sides agreed to negotiate and settle. North Korea, China, and United States signed the Military Armistice Agreement in July 1953, formally ending the Korean War.

During the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union played huge roles. United States actively proposed to form an "United Nations Army" and to fight. Soviet Union provided the Chinese People's Volunteers with a huge number of military equipment, especially the famous MiG-15s that made the US Air Force have a hard time. Also, regarding the fact that North Korea started this war and United States actually fought the war, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union should take the same amount of responsibility.

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Vietnam War (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Vietnam War (Jeremy) (Importance Rate:10)

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Vietnam War also called the second Indochina War, taking place between 1955 and 1975. Vietnam Was was a war that US sent the most troops, spent the most money, had the most casualties, and was involved for the longest period of time after WWII. In essence, Vietnam War was between Republic of Vietnam supported by NATO and US and North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Union. As a result, the government of the Republic of Vietnam was overthrown, and the United States lost the war. After the war, Vietnam unified and became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The was started was because the United States regard the North Vietnam as a huge threat because it's communism; President Eisenhower was fearful that the socialism and communism existing in southeast Asia would undermine the capitalism; the United States wanted to help the Republic of Vietnam take out the North Vietnam. However, the Soviet Union played a huge role of advocating the North Vietnam to counter the United States; the Soviet Union didn't actually fight the war. Thus, the United States should take more responsibility relatively.

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1957-Space Race Started(Zach) 7/10 importance

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1957-Space Race Started(Zach) 7/10 importance

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After the USSR released Sputnik, the U.S. took this as a threat and a challenge which kickstarted the Space Race. The U.S. responded with the National Defense Education Act.  This event was not only about getting the first man in space, but was also about civil rights.

The USSR started the Space Race when they released Sputnik.  Sputnik had the ability to take pictures of anything, anywhere, and no one could do anything about it.  This made Americans uneasy so they decided jump on board the space train and attempt to be the first nation to send a man to space.

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April 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion(Zach) 9.8/10

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April 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion(Zach) 9.8/10

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After Castro's takeover, A group of Cuban exiles lead by the CIA and directed by the government charged the beaches of Cuba only to find 15-20,000 Cuban Mercenaries.  The plan was a huge fail for the Kennedy administration and the exiles were defeated in a quick 3 days.

100/0 for the U.S.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion happened because Kennedy directed a CIA trained group of Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. The only two reasons for the invasion was that Castro was communist and backed by the Soviets. These two reasons are not enough to invade a country.

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Oct 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis(zach) 10/10 importance

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Oct 1962-Cuban Missile Crisis(zach) 10/10 importance

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In 1962, USSR was given permission to install soviet missiles in cuban territory just 90 miles away from the U.S.A.. U.S.A didn't like this so they planned blockade and would use military force if necessary. Combat was avoided after kennedy agreed with Nikita Khrushchev’s offer that the cuban missiles will be removed as long as the U.S.A. doesn't invade Cuba. Kennedy also agreed to removed missiles from Turkey.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the USSR's fault because they had no reason to install nuclear missiles in Cuba so close to U.S. Shores. This was even worse for the U.S. because the leader of Cuba was a communist who over through Cuba and rid the Country of American business men. The U.S. had no other option but to take action and suppress this major threat.