Cold War by Quincy W

IRON CURTAIN

quanasw — 2024-05-06 12:46:51 UTC

a political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

UN- FORMED

nahjianas — 2024-05-09 12:22:14 UTC

As World War II was about to end in 1945, nations were in ruins, and the world wanted peace. Representatives of 50 countries gathered at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, California from 25 April to 26 June 1945.

JAPAN OCCUPIED/BECOMES ALLY

nahjianas — 2024-05-09 12:22:54 UTC

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

TRUMAN DOCTRINE-

nahjianas — 2024-05-09 12:24:04 UTC

the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

the marshall plan

nahjianas — 2024-05-09 12:27:42 UTC

The Marshall Plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

BERLIN AIRLIFT

quanasw — 2024-05-10 12:15:53 UTC

On 26 June 1948, Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime. The film, “Background to Berlin”, produced in 1962, explains how this happened.

NATO FORMED

quanasw — 2024-05-10 12:16:21 UTC

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

CHINA REVOLUTION-becomes Communist

quanasw — 2024-05-10 12:17:10 UTC

full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s.

KOREAN WAR

quanasw — 2024-05-10 12:17:36 UTC

Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South.